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Offering to the Storm
Dolores Redondo
<h2>It begins with a murdered child. It ends in a valley where nightmares are born.</h2>When Detective Inspector Amaia Salazar is called in to investigate the death of a baby girl, she finds a suspicious mark across the child’s face – an ominous sign that points to murder.The baby’s father was caught trying to run away with the body, whether from guilt or grief nobody can be sure. And when the girl’s grandmother tells the police that the ‘Inguma’ was responsible – an evil demon of Basque mythology that kills people in their sleep – Amaia is forced to return to the Baztán valley for answers.Back where it all began, in the depths of a blizzard, she comes face to face with a ghost from her past. And finally uncovers a devastating truth that has ravaged the valley for years.
Copyright (#ua3e92a81-94f0-5908-bd3c-8a54345460b6)
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
Copyright © Dolores Redondo 2014
Translation copyright © Nick Caistor and Lorenza García 2017
Dolores Redondo asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Originally published in 2014 by Ediciones Destino,
Spain, as Ofrenda a la tormenta
Cover design by Holly Macdonald © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018
Cover photographs © Wojciech Zwolinski/Arcangel Images (statue), Shutterstock.com (http://www.shutterstock.com) (other images)
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This is entirely a work of fiction. Any references to real people, living or dead, real events, businesses, organizations and localities are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. All names, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.
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Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2017 ISBN: 9780008165550
Source ISBN: 9780008165543
Version: 2018-04-20
Dedication (#ua3e92a81-94f0-5908-bd3c-8a54345460b6)
For Eduardo, as with everything I do.
For my aunt Angela and all the proud women in my family, who have always done what had to be done.
And above all, for Ainara.
I cannot bring you justice, but at least I shall remember your name.
‘It is never too late, Dorian. Let us kneel down, and try if we cannot remember a prayer.’
‘Those words mean nothing to me now.’
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
‘All things that have a name exist.’
A popular Baztan belief, recorded by José Miguel de Barandiarán in Brujería y brujas
Table of Contents
Cover (#u453d534a-90ac-5caa-9849-76dba3e4b5a9)
Title Page (#u3c06d27c-0971-5a92-bd08-2890cbc63f57)
Copyright (#u2a76a274-9a3c-56de-87de-ac5f68b02f36)
Dedication (#u81e7945d-45a5-5d6f-86f3-bf20c3b89a87)
Epigraph (#u6c1f7bc5-88c8-5ead-a357-4b8ceb5d5711)
Chapter 1 (#ua65933ae-905a-558e-a22d-183879412461)
Chapter 2 (#uf346d3b1-db6e-5355-992f-1f2ddeb9e130)
Chapter 3 (#ud519dc77-8c1d-523c-803f-c3f46c7bceca)
Chapter 4 (#u849d1bf3-d384-52a8-a3ff-0b5fecce788f)
Chapter 5 (#ud550445f-2795-5824-8b0d-a96852286b80)
Chapter 6 (#ub2fdcc4d-d5fb-54cd-bf21-fe2077e71e7e)
Chapter 7 (#u6526641d-e26e-59d5-8d57-04d8671ded36)
Chapter 8 (#ue4e45841-203e-5d23-9adc-da7cff01f3dd)
Chapter 9 (#ub7be1556-df30-5bcd-90f3-83389ef23438)
Chapter 10 (#u4c445990-423f-580e-87b7-0fa376b1b443)
Chapter 11 (#u50845a2b-b8a7-518e-a3e5-6f7fb1ed182d)
Chapter 12 (#ue7bebc26-f9be-5021-ac5a-b215d4b56b5c)
Chapter 13 (#ufc2b19a0-95e7-5766-b19c-5ec7a5c720e3)
Chapter 14 (#u2cd67bc3-b0bb-5fa0-a3f2-b9af135f84aa)
Chapter 15 (#u620b77d8-1812-56e4-b9f2-aa597eb47cdd)
Chapter 16 (#ufa7885e5-4a9c-51bc-8be9-1fe2e3e9b574)
Chapter 17 (#u05f5b9f4-320d-5d73-bff1-9e399b2fe7f3)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 45 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 50 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 51 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 52 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 53 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 54 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 55 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 56 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 57 (#litres_trial_promo)
Footnotes (#litres_trial_promo)
Author’s Note (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Keep Reading … (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Also by Dolores Redondo (#litres_trial_promo)
