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She reads late into the night, takes notes, organizes her thoughts using the standard techniques and a few tricks she has invented herself and, by the time the clock has passed ten, she has an overview of the case and has even come up with a plan to take the investigation forward.

The captain is no longer in the grip of the bad mood that descended when she was given this minor case, an affair which until yesterday had been in the hands of Captain Leonardo Borda, who suffers from chronic haemorrhoids and has been admitted for surgery first thing tomorrow morning. Also gone is the disappointment she felt at not being assigned the case of the killer nurses, those angels of death at Maciel Hospital who appear to have been responsible for helping dozens of patients, perhaps even hundreds, into the afterlife. This evening she has been getting to grips with the murder of Juan Carlos Lencina, alias the Candyman, an inmate of Santiago Vázquez Prison, and she now feels the familiar enthusiasm as she tackles a file that, so far, is just a question, an accumulation of facts with no apparent logic or explanation, to which she will have to find a solution or acknowledge failure and admit she has been defeated by a superior mind.