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From bestselling novelist Patrícia Melo comes a masterful thriller set in the far west of Brazil that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing. To escape an overprotective family and an abusive partner, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about an epidemic of violence against women that seems beyond comprehension.

Alucinante mezcla de thriller, novela de denuncia e hiperrealismo, Pilas de mujeres es un crudo retrato de la violencia feminicida, pero también el escenario donde la autora se atreve a imaginar un universo paralelo, una realidad en la que los hombres reciben castigo por sus aberrantes...

The detective is losing his mind. Suffering from a panic disorder that has him haunting emergency rooms in rising waves of crisis, the detective begins to lose his grip - on his relationship with his fiery young lover, on his ability to work, on his health.