Buenos Aires

The dead man made coffee for two.

Detective Lucía Ferreyra notices that before she notices the blood.

One cup has been rinsed and put away. The other is still cooling on the table. The victim lies beside it with the left side of his skull opened by a bronze horse.

The apartment was locked.

The killer was invited.

That would be a normal murder problem.

Then Lucía discovers that the dead man has already died before.

The Office of the Second Census arrives carrying a black card and an explanation nobody asked for: the Office records the dead, verifies passage and prevents unlawful return.

Lucía has questions.

So does the corpse.

Soon Buenos Aires is dealing with deaths that repeat, identities that refuse to remain singular, and an institution whose oldest law sounds suspiciously like a preference.

The dead begin remembering the city.

The city begins remembering them back.

And beneath Buenos Aires, something answers with the sound of a train moving under streets where no tracks have ever been laid.

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