La rose dAlexandrie

When the corpse of Encarna Abellan appears destroyed on a beach in Barcelona the detective Pepe Carvalho begins the research and travels to A Coruña She was married to a wealthy owner belonging to a wellknown A Coruña family and had traveled to Barcelona to undergo a fertility treatment but had previously had relations with Ginés Larios a merchant navy officer and exboyfriend whom he had left to marry the rich heir The suicide of the latter seems to be the case by closed however Carvalho decides to try to clarify everything