“Well, these things happen, man. Don’t worry about it, don’t think about it anymore.”
That’s all I said. There was no point in repeating what I’d told him a thousand times, because he knew it and I know it: rich people are from another planet, and any sucker who thinks otherwise is going to regret it.
“My god, Iván! What am I going to do with my life now? What am I going to do?”
That did piss me off, and I was tempted to tell him to go to hell. I looked him square in the eyes and said the only thing I could say:
“What are you going to do? You’re going to hang in there, man, hang in there and keep going same as everybody else! What do you think the rest of us are doing?”
* * *
Police blotter:
Irene Sancho, a forty-two-year-old businesswoman, was found dead this morning in her home. Her assistant notified the police because she showed signs of having been brutally murdered.
Police sources speculate that the death may have occurred during the course of a night of sex, alcohol, and drugs, though they admit that they currently have no evidence or witnesses and cannot dismiss any line of inquiry.
Some neighbors have reported seeing individuals of North African descent walking through the neighborhood in recent weeks, but they are unable to provide any precise information.
Of course, the more time passes after a crime is committed, the harder it is to solve it. The woman had been dead for three days by the time she was found, so solving the case will be enormously difficult. The judge immediately issued a gag order.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alicia Giménez-Bartlett is one of Spain’s most popular and beloved crime novelists. She was born in Almansa, Spain, in 1951, and has lived in Barcelona since 1975. In 1997, she was awarded the Femenino Lumen prize for the best female writer in Spain, and in 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Planeta Prize for her novel, Naked Men.
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