WHO KILLED PALOMINO MOLERO? - Faber

Peru in the 1950s. Near an air force base in the northern deserts, a young airman is found brutally murdered. Two local policemen, Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma, set out in the heat and the dust to investigate. Who Killed Palomino Molero? is a brilliantly plotted mystery that is also serious fiction. In it, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the themes of guilt, innocence, the impossibility of justice in a society grounded in inequality and the eternally elusive nature of the truth.