Detective Petra Delicado's marriage is on the rocks. Her colleagues are more impossibly sexist than ever. And she thirsts for new challenges, new faces, and new ways of keeping the spark inside of her alive. Her relationship with Sergeant Fermin Garzn is getting more complicated as their private and professional lives increasingly overlap. Tough, sexy, and self-assured, Petra Delicado is a new kind of cop in Spanish crime writing. In this new addition to the series, she and Garzn are on the trail of a serial rapist stalking the streets of Barcelona.