A hustler who makes a living selling billiard paraphernalia in Mexico City suddenly discovers that his lover – a teenaged girl who is still at high school – has been kidnapped. Obsessed with recovering the young woman, he throws himself into his search for her through the sewers of people trafficking and exploitation of women in Mexico. This is the starting point of the investigation at the heart of Marla won’t be coming back. With all the ingredients of the best kind of crime fiction, this is the second novel by Béla Braun, one of the most exciting young Mexican storytellers of the moment.