Time of the Flies
Claudia Piñeiro
Life after crime from the Booker International finalist author of Elena Knows. Fifteen years after poisoning her husband’s lover, Ines is released from prison and left to put together a life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they decide to work together in pest control. But Señora Bonar, one of their clients, wants them to do more than kill bugs―she wants their expertise, and their criminal pasts, to help her kill her husband’s lover, too. Marital abuse, crimes against women, and crimes by women, worlds upended, mothers and daughters―this is classic Piñeiro, alive to all the ways institutions set us up to fail and to fail each other.
Publication Year: 2024
I had no idea prior to reading this book that this is the sequel(?) to her previous book titled All Yours, which consists of the same characters and it elaborates further on the murder. No idea if having read the first book makes this one more enjoyable; I think without reading the first book this is pretty good as a standalone, but seeing other reviews talk about All Yours makes us more connected to Ines + more insight on who Ernesto was.
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0 0I love how Piñeiro writes about motherhood and being a woman. Her stories are always so intriguing. This book specifically, plot-wise, is nothing outstanding, but it was easy to follow, and you feel highly connected to every single one of the characters in the book. Reading it felt like watching a movie. I can see it being a bit slow for others, but me personally I enjoyed it a lot. I also really liked the philosophical dialogues in between and you don't get the reveal of who they are until the end of the story. Great read!
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