MAEVA 2019
TORRENTE BALLESTER NOVEL PRIZE 2018

Gracia San Sebastián has given up a successful career in New York and returned with her husband Jorge to her hometown of Oviedo to work as an investigator of Social Security fraud.

Her new case is linked to the pension payments of a Francoist soldier who is supposedly one hundred and twelve years old—a figure that is clearly suspicious. While her personal life takes unexpected turns, Gracia discovers threads of the case that lead her to investigate the suicide of her mother’s neighbor. From time to time, she seeks advice from a close family friend, the Dominican nun Sister Florencia.