There Are No Happy Loves
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Publisher Description
The third in Olguin’s Buenos Aires thriller series starring the gutsy, raunchy investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal.
Haunted by nightmares of her past, Veronica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all his family, is convinced that his wife and child have in fact survived and that his wife has abducted their child. Then a truck searched in the port of Buenos Aires on suspicion that it is carrying drugs, is revealed to be transporting human body parts. These seemingly separate incidents prove to be tied in a shadowy web of complicity involving political and religious authorities. This is a dazzling thriller but also a story about the possibilities of love, in which jealousy, eroticism, humor and even elusive moments of happiness make an appearance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Olguín's engrossing third crime novel featuring Buenos Aires investigative journalist Verónica Rosenthal (after 2021's The Foreign Girls), Darío, the lone survivor of a multiple-car accident, is sure that his daughter and wife survived the crash and that his wife has abducted their daughter. Verónica, who looks into Darío's case, finds it strange that he's evasive about the fact that the girl was adopted. Meanwhile, a police raid led by Verónica's former love interest, prosecutor Federico Córdova, seizes a van that turns out to contain not drugs, as expected, but human body parts and infant corpses. With the aid of a former nun, Verónica later unearths a sinister operation involving the Catholic Church and illegal adoptions. Verónica's and Federico's conflicted feelings toward each other distract at times from the strong plot, but this is a quibble. Though this entry isn't as emotionally powerful as Verónica's previous outings, series fans will be well satisfied.
