From the winner of the Feminino Lumen Prize for best female writer in Spain, a new book in the "Petra Delicado mystery series." Inspector Petra Delicado has been chained to a tiresome desk job in the documentation department of the Barcelona police force for months. But things are about to change. The department is short-handed and thereas a serial rapist on the loose. Delicado is partnered with the polite and impossibly compliant Sgt. FermA-n GarzA3n with orders to solve the case before it succeeds in completely ruining the good name of the Barcelona police force. Tough, sexy, at times apparently pitiless, Petra Delicado is a new kind of cop in Spanish crime writing. As she does battle with sexist colleagues, ruthless reporters, indifferent witnesses, hardened criminals, ex-husbands, and houseplants that just wonat flower, she sometimes thinks her thirst for new challenges and perpetual change is more trouble than its worth.