Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Claudia Pineiro's novel eerily foreshadowed a criminal case that generated a scandal in the Argentine media. But this is more than a story about crime. The suspense is a by-product of Pineiro's hand at crafting a psychological portrait of a professional class that lives beyond its means and leads secret lives of deadly stress and despair. It takes place during the post 9/11 economic melt-down in Argentina but it's a universal story that will resonate among credit-crunched readers of today.

About the Author
Claudia Pineiro was a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pleyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction and is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into four languages. This novel won the Clarin Prize for fiction and is her first title to be available in English.

Reviews
"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying societyA"-Jose Saramago A razor-sharp psychological and social portrait not only of Argentina, but of the affluent Western world as a whole.A"-Rosa Montero



Book Information
ISBN 9781904738411
Author Claudia Pineiro
Format Paperback
Page Count 227
Imprint Bitter Lemon Press
Publisher Bitter Lemon Press
Weight(grams) 276g