Ciudad Láser
Mariantuá Correa

FICTION | 2024 | 152 pages

A debut novel that acts as a contemporary X-ray of the corruption, machismo, and perversion of the desires that surround us

One wet and humid afternoon Soledad heads home after her day job at the beauty clinic Laser City but never makes it to her destination. Giselle Horn, a detective on the brink of retirement descends to the abyss of a city that has forgotten itself in order to follow the footsteps of someone who seems to have taken a dark secret with her. Meanwhile, Soledad’s boyfriend Raúl finds himself dragged into an existence that is tarnished by guilt. As the investigation advances, Soledad’s absence pushes Horn to investigate her own past in order to find answers because in a world where nothing is what it seems and the illusion of freedom consumes itself, it’s sometimes necessary to trace your steps in order to unravel the mystery.

A noir novel at its finest, Ciudad Láser is a truncated love story where desire and lack that fuels it tumble into a spiral of violence darkened by a disappearance.

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“With Ciudad Láser, Correa proves to us that writers are like detectives who imagine, reconstruct, and deploy words as investigative instruments and creators of unsuspected scenarios. This novel has missing persons, hair removal clinics, the dark web, crime, and mysteries to solve, all narrated with irreverence and an enviable sense of rhythm and stylistic precision.”
— Mónica Ojeda
“A crime novel that goes beyond the framework of the genre to talk about violence, marginality, classism and machismo.”
— Carlos Zanón, Babelia, El País