The Invisible Guardian

Description

"A police inspector [reluctantly returns] to her hometown in Basque Country--a place engulfed in mythology and superstition--to solve a series of eerie murders"--Amazon.com.

First Sentence

Ainhoa Elizasu was the second victim of the basajaun, although the press were yet to coin that name for him.

Description

The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztan. Less than 24 hours after this discovery, a link is made to the murder of another girl the month before. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or of the Invisible Guardian, the Basajaun, a creature of Basque mythology? 30-year-old Inspector Amaia Salazar heads an investigation which will take her back to Elizondo, the village in the heart of Basque country where she was born, and to which she had hoped never to return. A place of mists, rain and forests. A place of unresolved conflicts, of a dark secret that scarred her childhood and which will come back to torment her. Torn between the rational, procedural part of her job and local myths and superstitions, Amaia Salazar has to fight off the demons of her past in order to confront the reality of a serial killer at loose in a region steeped in the history of the Spanish Inquisition.

Subjects

Series Statement

• The Baztan Trilogy, Book 1

Other Editions

• The Invisible GuardianPaperbackHarper2015-01-01
• The invisible guardianSimon & Schuster, Incorporated2016-01-01