Lo que oculta la tierra / What The Earth Hides

Memories are passed down from parents to children. So is hatred.

 Leticia Sierra captivates us with a thriller set in the ever-spectacular Asturian mining basin that leaves the reader in a state of shock.

Asturias, Turón mining valley, 1995. In the middle of nowhere, on a secondary road, the body of an elderly man who was not well liked in the village is found in a penitent position, with his hands and tongue cut off and a bullet in the back of his head. The only witness is Tomasín, a disabled man who cannot communicate, in a state of shock. When the two civil guards, Daniel Caicoya and his partner Jesús Arias, begin to handle the inquiry, they immediately suspect that the reasons for the murder go back fifty years: a brutal revenge. Everything revolves around the Pozo Fortuna mine, but the village remains silent, including Daniel’s father, Matías, a former miner who has not spoken to his son for ten years, unable to accept his decision to become a policeman.