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Blood ties

ISBN: 9781914495809
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group Ltd.
Origin: GB
Release Date: May, 2025

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They called her The Ogress of Colonia Roma. Julián and I called her Mother. When the writer Ignacio Suárez is sent photographs of two murdered women, mirroring a passage of his very own detective novel, he drops everything to uncover who is responsible. What no-one suspects is that the origin of these crimes lies in the forgotten, real-life story of Felícitas Sánchez, the midwife turned child-killer who became known in the 1940s as “The Ogress of Colonia Roma”. Diary entries and newspaper articles come together in this gripping tale to reveal how the woman called Felícitas, who grew up in a small community in La Huasteca, Mexico, became the infamous child trafficker and murderer in the country’s capital, and how her long-ago crimes are linked to a wave of killings. Verónica E.