Retirement in Red

Synopsis

A woman appears dead at an El Campello beach before dawn. The interim report refers to accidental drowning, but Inspector Silvia Saura sees what others prefer to avoid looking at: the body was not randomly abandoned and put to be found. The small incision marked on his skin isn't a ritual. They're a code. When Silvia links his body with other closed deaths too quickly, his research drags them from Alicante to Marbella, Ibiza and Valencia, following a network of screen societies, private clinics, political money and Mediterranean luxury. On the surface, everything looks legal. At heart, every document smells of corruption and every silence owns. That's how Alexei Sorokin appears, an elegant, seductive and dangerous Russian gallery player, far too smart to be a coincidence and far too close to be innocent. Silvia knows I shouldn't trust him. He also knows that perhaps he's the only person capable of leading her to the centre of the maze. On a coast where money buys beauty, discretion and corpses without questions, Silvia Saura will have to decide how much she's willing to lose to get the truth out. A body, a beach, a crime...