Elysa: The Snail That Tore Off Its Own Head

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
In southern Spain, in a border town whose youngest house is a hundred and fifty years old, hundreds of wine tanks toppled from the hillside vineyards stain the streets red, and no one can find the source of the stench of carrion that has gripped the town for weeks. Detective Ilona, promoted young and carrying the gossip of the male officers at the station on her back, has only one person close to her: her sibling in a care home, a single body shared by Valeri, a painter, and Ivan, the small, irritable, hard-drinking face on the back of his head.

On the first night the search for the smell leads Ilona into the mountains, to hundreds of deer and horse carcasses swarming with mosquitoes, and to a silent, fur-clad hunter who has shot a policeman. Then, at an engagement party in the garden rented out by the care home's director, a human finger turns up in a guest's soup; the man dies and his six-year-old daughter disappears. With rookie Jorge and a hungry blue dog they found behind the canteen storeroom, Ilona follows the trail through a town where the village by the turbines never wakes and people dance in the streets until they die. And in the director's aquarium lives a sea snail that tears off its own head and rebuilds its body.

Yiğit Kahraman's third crime novel, after Helena Anentome and Şukalski'nin Sağ Gözündeki Kara Leke.