Set in the snowbound village of Fénix, Diego Uribe’s Secretos de familia is a chilling, slow-burning mystery. After teenager Emilia Blume is found stabbed, Inspector Zaida Benatar unspools a knot of secrets: arsenic traces, a foreign blade, and a family’s suffocating silence. Uribe blends police procedural grit with gothic unease, as he paces each new revelation with deft restraint. With taut prose, a formidably unsettling atmosphere, and empathetic characterization that is unique to the genre, this cozy noir is both haunting and disturbingly plausible.
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