Verónica Rosenthal, a Buenos Aires journalist on holiday in the north of Argentina, spends a few days with two young women travelers — one Italian, one Colombian. Days later both are found raped and murdered in the hills of Tucumán. The police work is a shambles, and Verónica starts asking questions that lead toward the province’s judges, police, and landowning families, who have arrangements going back decades. Olguín writes her as genuinely reckless rather than plucky, and the book is angry about femicide in Argentina without ever pausing to lecture.
The Foreign Girls