The Dead Girls Av Jorge Ibarguengoitia

<p><b>With an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm Tóibín</b><br><br>Opening with a crime of passion after a years-long love affair has soured, <i>The Dead Girls </i>soon plunges into an investigation of something even darker: Serafina Baladro and her sister run a successful brothel business in a small town, so successful that they begin to expand. But when business starts to falter, life in the brothel turns ugly, and slowly, girls start disappearing . . . <br><br>Based on real events, the story of serial-killing brothel owners Delfina and María de Jésus González, whose crimes were uncovered in 1964, <i>The Dead Girls </i>is a deliciously satirical black comedy - a potent blend of sex and mayhem. Written in the laconic tones of a police report, it cleverly uncovers the hopeless pedantry of a broken justice system, and the dark world of prostitution.</p>