The transparency of time Author Surname:Padura A combination of Gone Girl

A combination of Gone Girl and Franzen's Freedom filtered through the fierce Mediterranean vision of Elena Ferrante

a city of contradictions

Maggy enters a sinister underworld of corrupt cops

When Elsie Munday arrives to take up position as housemaid to the Spencer family

The transparency of time Author Surname:Padura A combination of Gone GirlMario Conde is facing a failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favour of a new worship of money. Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santeria appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla a black Madonna. This sets Conde on a quest that spans twenty first