The fifth and, for the moment, last in the series of noir novels featuring Inspector Mascarell.

A crisis is any situation originated by a threat from which serious damages or loss of lives, goods, interests or image may be produced.

What do we inherit from those who are absent? How much - or for how long - are we allowed to miss them? Do things speak when their owners have gone? Is love or its memory sweeter?

If you sweat buckets on your first date, and enter into a semi comatose state; if you still believe that you have to go on a diet or wear lace underwear in order to pull; if when you mouth the words “I love you”, your paramour slips away muttering