The Fear of the Dance

The Fear of the Dance relates the story of Veronica Bloise, a young woman suffering from bi-polar disorder who in the manic flight triggered by the death of her father, braves a new and distorted world. We enter that world and follow the steps that lead to her murder some twelve months later.
The book alternates from the past to the present as the detective Dardo Soler attempts to unravel the mystery of her death; the action taking place in the streets of Buenos Aires just prior to the collapse of the De la Rua government in 2001.
Each chapter presents a hint of the turmoil beyond as the book settles down to resolve the riddle of her murder.
Three working parts bring the book to life: the victim, the detective, and the city that spreads from the Rio de la Plata to the edge of the vast pampas beyond.
The initial investigation suggests the killer to be one of the victim´s two lovers. But before long Soler begins to divine the chain of events that led to the presumed accidental death of Veronica´s father and the series of seemingly unrelated deaths that culminate in Veronica´s strangulation.
Starting from a base of jealousy driven revenge the book veers subtly in another direction, that new course leading our detective into a world of fraud and corruption.