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August 2016, Vitoria is seized by the annual festive euphoria – the celebrations in honor of the White Lady, patroness of the city, begin. However, the cheerful mood quickly darkens with the unexpected news of a horrific murder – the lifeless bodies of two twenty-year-old youths are found in the Old Cathedral. The next victims, just a day later, are already twenty-five years old. The tension and general shock grow immensely with the appearance of the next pair of murdered. The strange ritual staging of the crimes evokes the memory of a series of double murders that had shaken the city many years ago. Then the brilliant archaeologist Tasio Ortiz de Zárate, the most charismatic city celebrity, was accused and sentenced for the death of eight people.

With his imprisonment, the murders ceased. Now Tasio is about to be released from prison after 20 years behind bars and… the crimes start again. The modus operandi is the same, there is an inexplicable ritual symbolism, and the crime scenes follow the chronological development of the city over the centuries. Inspector Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, is tasked with capturing the villain who once again throws an entire city into terror. Will the young inspector manage to decipher the symbols, to figure out the ominous plan of a criminal mind with a much higher intelligence quotient than those who try to stop him in time? 'It is a captivating novel that leaves the reader breathless.'