"What best characterizes this violent and miserable democracy is its orphanhood."
After the shocking discovery of human bones in one of the wealthiest and best-guarded suburbs of Bogotá, special investigations prosecutor Edilson Huchinamuí takes on the task of identifying to whom they belong, with the help of police officer Laieska and his team. Julieta Lezama, his journalist friend, participates in the investigation, which begins to uncover a long chain of criminal atrocities. Their steps lead them, among others, to the author Santiago Gamboa, as his work proves to hide a fundamental clue for understanding the mystery.
Huchinamuí, with his infallible instinct, and the brave Lezama return to a sensational story filled with unforgettable characters, including a professor with a peculiar love life and an enigmatic Argentinean. Colombian Psycho is an exhilarating game with mirrors, where the line between reality and fiction blurs, as the author's imagination and real life overlap in a dangerous intrigue, which also serves as a revelation of a nation's condition.
A short excerpt from the book:
He saw the lights on the hills and imagined what was happening there. He thought of the torrential rains. The water that penetrates the earth and reveals these things to us. The murderers hide and the rains bring them back to the surface. Where could such barbarity fit? Atrocious murders, femicides, and mariticide, crimes of passion. For him, they were not individual expressions of evil, but the consequences of a twisted society. No one does such things out of taste or because it's in their nature.
There are people who suffer, who hate, who envy, who are alone, desperate, or abandoned, who one day simply can't endure it any longer and commit a crime. Psychology mitigates the guilt, saying it was a sought-after and just revenge. That it restored harmony. Who lives today in peace? In this country, he thought, very few: those who exhale with satisfaction when checking the balance of their bank account.
