After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed.
This is her fourth title for Charco Press after Slum Virgin by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (2017), The German Room by Carla Maliandi (2018) and Theatre of War by Andrea Jeftanovic (2020)..
Her book-length publications include A Simple Story by Leila Guerriero (New Directions, 2017)
Bodies of Summer by Martín Felipe Castagnet (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017); and The Life and Deaths of Ethel Jurado (Hispabooks, 2017).
She holds an MA in translation studies from the University of Buenos Aires and a BA in Spanish literature.
Frances Riddle lives in Buenos Aires, where she works as a translator, writer, and editor.
Her fiction is rooted in the detective novel but has recently turned increasingly political.
More recently, she has become a very active figure in the fight for the legalisation of abortion in Argentina and Latin America, and for the recognition of employment rights for writers.
Claudia Piñeiro is the third most translated Argentinean author, after Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar.
Many of her novels have been adapted for the big screen.
She has won numerous national and international prizes, including the Pepe Carvalho Prize, the LiBeraturpreis for Elena Knows and the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Las grietas de Jara ( A Crack in the Wall ).
About author(s): Born in Buenos Aires in 1960, Claudia Piñeiro is a best-selling author, known internationally for her crime novels.
Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.
Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit.
After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed
