Claudia Piñeiro

Translated by Frances Riddle

Life after crime from the author of Elena Knows

Fifteen years after killing her husband’s lover, Inés is released from prison and left to put together a life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they’ve started a business—MMM, or Muerte (death), Mujeres (women), Mosca (fly)—dedicated to fumigation and private investigation, by women, for women. But Señora Bonar, one of their clients, wants them to do more than kill bugs—she wants their expertise, and their criminal pasts, to help her kill her husband’s lover, too. 

Crimes against women versus crimes by women; culpability, fallibility, and our responsibilities to each other—this is Piñeiro at her wry, earthy best, alive to all the ways we shape ourselves to be understandable, to be understood, by family and love and other hostile forces.