Tejada's great-aunt, Doña Rosalia, was a rich widow who made the lives of everyone around her miserable by her paranoid fantasies that "Reds" were going to kill her. When she is found dead, no one can believe that she has died of anything other than natural causes, but when her will goes missing her family insists that Tejada be called to investigate the death of one of their own.
Tejada is less than pleased to be dragged the length of Spain to do a formal investigation of what seems like a natural death. His wife Elena is even more unhappy about having to interact with her hostile and disdainful in-laws. But when evidence emerges that Doña Rosalia was murdered, Tejada must navigate the world of Granada's wealthy elite to find a killer - even though some of the evidence points to his own family.
As the war recedes into the past, Tejada must confront the ghosts of his childhood before he can move toward the future he desires for his son.
