The Invisible Guardian
By: Dolores Redondo ; translated from the Spanish by Isabelle Kaufeler
Contributors: Kaufeler, Isabelle, translator
Series: The Baztan Trilogy, Book 1
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers; Harper; Blue Door
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: El guardián invisible
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780007525324; 9780007525331; 9780007525355; 9780007525348
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Fiction; País Vasco (Spain) - Fiction; Murder - Investigation - Spain - Pais Vasco - Fiction; Spanish fiction
Work titles: Guardián invisible
First sentence: Ainhoa Elizasu was the second victim of the basajaun, although the press were yet to coin that name for him.
Description: The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztan. Less than 24 hours after this discovery, a link is made to the murder of another girl the month before. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or of the Invisible Guardian, the Basajaun, a creature of Basque mythology? 30-year-old Inspector Amaia Salazar heads an investigation which will take her back to Elizondo, the village in the heart of Basque country where she was born, and to which she had hoped never to return. A place of mists, rain and forests. A place of unresolved conflicts, of a dark secret that scarred her childhood and which will come back to torment her. Torn between the rational, procedural part of her job and local myths and superstitions, Amaia Salazar has to fight off the demons of her past in order to confront the reality of a serial killer at loose in a region steeped in the history of the Spanish Inquisition.
Notes: Translated from the Spanish by Isabelle Kaufeler.

Shortlisted for CWA International Dagger 2015.