Inspector Dario Deigo of the Judiciary Police arrives at Monserrata. Outsiders are never welcomed by the villagers, there’s no exception here. A forensic team is on the scene, and a pile of dead birds is in front of the church. All he knows is a woman named Esmeralda Lagano was murdered. Like all villages, everyone knows nothing, but everyone knows everything. No one had seen anything like it, and Deigo has seen a strange death or two. A high level of strychnine in the bird’s guano changes everything.

---