Time of the fliesClaudia Piñeiro2022

Fifteen years after poisoning her husband’s lover, Ines is released from prison and left to put together a life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they decide to work together in pest control. 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. Marital abuse, crimes against women, and crimes by women, worlds upended, mothers and daughters?this is classic Piñeiro, alive to all the ways institutions set us up to fail and to fail each other.

Titre original : El tiempo de los moscas (2022)