Dark echoes of the past
By: Ramón Díaz Eterovic ; translated by Patrick Blaine
Contributors: Blaine, Patrick G., translator
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781542046916
Subjects: Private investigators; Murder; Investigation; Political corruption; Political prisoners; Revenge; Fiction
Work titles: Oscura memoria de las armas
Description: Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't stop chasing the ghosts of the past. This time, they've come to him... Virginia Reyes's brother, an ex-political prisoner of dictator Augusto Pinochet, was killed in an apparent robbery. Yet nothing of value was taken. The police have declared the case closed, but Virginia suspects that things aren't quite as they appear and turns to Heredia for help. Heredia couldn't agree more--but he can't shake the feeling that there's something Virginia's not telling him. Heredia knows this is not a simple crime. His investigation proves it. Drawn back into a world where murderers nest, secrets are to kill and die for, and Pinochet's legacy still casts a long, dark, and very threatening shadow, it's all Heredia can do to crawl out of it alive--Back cover.
Notes: Previously published as La oscura memoria de las armas by Lom Ediciones in Chile in 2008.

Translated from the Spanish.