All Yours

1. A tightly plotted, short crime novel (186 pages) set in contemporary Buenos Aires. The story of two deaths, one seemingly accidental and one a cold-blooded murder, a portrait of a wife betrayed, at first desperate to save her marriage but then intent on violent revenge, also an unrelenting dissection of family life among the Argentine middle class.

2. As usual for Piñeiro, the novel is more than a mystery story: it has all the markings of the genre--page-turner pacing, short breathless sentences. But Piñeiro's hand at crafting a deeper story is remarkable--a psychological portrait of an Argentine middle class, obsessed with keeping up appearances at any cost.
   Also deftly interwoven is the story of the teenage daughter dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, caught in an emotional tug-of-war between her parents.

3. Second novel by Claudia Piñeiro published by Bitter Lemon Press, to follow on the success of Thursday Night Widows, which was made into a film earlier this year by Argentine New Wave director Marcelo Piñeyro.

4. The author has won the Clarin Prize and is a bestseller in Argentina and Spain (selling over 150,000 copies per title). She is translated in French, Italian and German.