Elena Knows

By Claudia Piñeiro

A unique murder mystery in which a sickly woman with late-stage Parkinson's sets out on an arduous journey to uncover the truth behind her daughter's strange death.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 172

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2022

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.

Read if you: need a break from Gillian Flynn's drunk protagonists.