El cementerio vacío
Publisher: Tusquets
Published: 2013
Language: spa
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9788483834596
Description: En medio de una romería, los vecinos de Getxo descubren el cadáver de la joven y hermosa Anari, y sobre ella, gritando desesperado, a un maketo del otro margen de la Ría con el que al parecer iba a fugarse. Al día siguiente, en la librería de Sancho Bordaberri, alias Samuel Esparta, entran dos niños dispuestos a empeñar sus ahorros para contratar sus servicios como investigador privado: quieren demostrar que el maketo, al que todos querían linchar, es inocente. Samuel descubre que fueron muchos los pretendientes y familiares que vieron a Anari la noche fatídica, y el caso se complica porque sus pesquisas se cruzan con las del comisario de la policía Político-Social. Por si fuera poco, se dará de bruces con una persistente leyenda popular según la cual las tumbas de los cementerios costeros se vacían por el fondo y vierten sus cadáveres al mar, donde tal vez los amantes vivan juntos para siempre.

During a pilgrimage, people from near Getxo discover the corpse of the young and beautiful Anari, and over her, desperately screaming, a foreigner from the other side of the river with whom she seemed to be in the process of eloping. The next day, in the bookstore of Sancho Bordaberri, alias Samuel Esparta, two kids come in and offer their savings to hire his services as a private investigator: they want him to prove that the foreigner, which everyone wanted to lynch, is innocent. Samuel discovers that there were many suitors and family who saw Anari on that fateful night, and the case is further complicated by the investigation by the police commissioner. As if that weren't enough, he must butt heads with a persistent popular legend according to which the graves in coastal cemeteries are emptied from the bottom and the corpses are decanted into the sea where maybe lovers can live together forever.