Laura Badia, Forensic Detective in Patagonia

The body of a tourist turns up frozen in Patagonia's largest glacier, killed by a gunshot to the belly thirty years ago.Of course, you have no idea that this will change your life. You've lived all of it in Barcelona, on the other side of the world.To grasp what's happening, you first need to know a few things: Your father had a brother he never told you about. This brother has just died, leaving you as the sole heir to a mysterious property in El Chaltn, an idyllic town in Patagonia.You'll travel there to sell it. You'll make the mistake of finding out that there is a connection between your uncle and the dead tourist in the glacier. And you will soon realize that, thirty years after the crime, someone in El Chaltn is willing to wipe you off the face of the earth to keep you from finding out the truth.Don't miss this addictive thriller that will take you on a whirlwind search from Barcelona to some of the most hauntingly beautiful and remote corners of Patagonia.

It takes murder to complete the collection.The calm of a sleepy Patagonian fishing port has been broken by murder. It's the case of a lifetime for brilliant and headstrong forensic detective Laura Bada. The crime is brutal and baffling. The victim is Julio Ortega, a local heartthrob and an old flame of Laura's. The apparent motive is the theft of a collection of ancient and mysterious iridescent arrowheads that Ortega had recently acquired. Carved nearly six thousand years ago out of Amazon opal, they are now missing from Ortega's home, vanishing once again into legend.With the help of a Buenos Aires archeologist, Laura begins to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle. It starts in Puerto Deseado with the secrets of Ortega's friends, enemies, and lovers. Where it leads is the panoramic reach of the Perito Moreno Glacier and far beyond, to the most remote corners of Patagonia. Can they uncover the dark history of the most infamous lithic art collection in the world? Generations have killed and died trying to solve its mystery, and now Laura will risk her career, her lifeand her own secretsto be the one to do it.