: The discovery of a common criminal’s body in what appears to be a cold "settling of scores".
The collection follows the investigations of , a melancholic sergeant and former psychology student, and Virginia Chamorro , a meticulous corporal. Set during various summer periods, the four cases are stripped of the "sophistication" of typical detective fiction, focusing instead on crimes often found in daily newspapers:
: The brutal murder of a woman where the primary suspect is her husband, a man with a long history of abuse.