La Enfermera de Cañas

In 1954, a nurse was found murdered in the cemetery of a small Costa Rican town. Seventy years later, the crime is still unsolved. María Ferrer was beloved in Cañas: she cared for the sick, knew everyone by name, and seemed to lead a quiet life, until her death uncovered letters, secrets, and ties that almost no one knew about.

Drawing on family testimony, oral memory, and documentary research, Estefanía Montero Herrera reconstructs one of the most enigmatic cases in Costa Rican history. It is a novel about memory, fear, power, and the legends a town chooses to remember.