La mort a les seves mans

As she walks her dog through a forest, Vesta Gul, a seventy-two-year-old widow, finds an enigmatic handwritten note. Obsessed with mystery, lonely by temperament and will, new to the area, she invents possible suspects and motives for the crime. As if it were a plot by Agatha Christie, it seems that Vesta's assumptions are finding more and more parallels with reality and force her, too, to face experiences of her dark past. Confirming herself as one of the most provocative and unique literary talents of today, Ottessa Moshfegh, who has been said to be the reference author of any good misanthrope, gets a masterful mix of intrigue, restlessness, and black comedy about the fact that we often prefer not to know the truth about ourselves.