La muerte es una vieja historia / Death Is an Old Tale

A great novel out of Antofagasta, Chile, by the winner of the Premio Alfaguara de novela and a top of all lists bestseller in Chile.
A serial rapist stalks women at the Antofagasta cemetery. The victims testify that they were dragged into a mausoleum by a man with a scary voice who smelled like death. Tira Gutiérez is the person in charge of finding the culprit. He is the only private investigator in town who, until now, had only handled infidelity cases. Tira is a detective only due to his circumstances, an ex-miner who, after being unemployed, fell upon his secret passion of solving crimes. His partner is as farfetched as he is, a young nun. As the investigations continue, Sister Tegualda discovers that under her habit, she possesses a great sexuality and seductive abilities that she had never imagined.
Rivera Letelier triumphantly breaks into the police detective genre. Death is an Old Tale raises some of the issues that support current society and brings to the thriller genre an important protagonist.

English Description

A great novel out of Antofagasta, Chile, by the winner of the Premio Alfaguara de novela and a top of all lists bestseller in Chile.
A serial rapist stalks women at the Antofagasta cemetery. The victims testify that they were dragged into a mausoleum by a man with a scary voice who smelled like death. Tira Gutiérez is the person in charge of finding the culprit. He is the only private investigator in town who, until now, had only handled infidelity cases. Tira is a detective only due to his circumstances, an ex-miner who, after being unemployed, fell upon his secret passion of solving crimes. His partner is as farfetched as he is, a young nun. As the investigations continue, Sister Tegualda discovers that under her habit, she possesses a great sexuality and seductive abilities that she had never imagined.
Rivera Letelier triumphantly breaks into the police detective genre. Death is an Old Tale raises some of the issues that support current society and brings to the thriller genre an important protagonist.

Hernán Rivera Letelier nació en Talca, 1950. Su novela La Reina Isabel cantaba rancheras fue premiada por el Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura en 1994, y es una de las obras literarias de más vasta difusión de la narrativa chilena reciente. Luego publicó: Himno del ángel parado en una pata, Premio Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura en 1996, Fatamorgana de amor con banda de música (1998), Premio Municipal de Novela; el libro de cuentos Donde mueren los valientes (1999), Los trenes se van al purgatorio (2000), Santa María de las flores negras (2002), Canción para caminar sobre las aguas (2004), Romance del duende que me escribe las novelas (2005), El Fantasista (2006), Mi nombre es Malarrosa (2008), La contadora de películas (2009), El arte de la resurrección, por la que en 2010 obtuvo el Premio Alfaguara de Novela, El Escritor de Epitafios (2011), Historia de amor con hombre bailando (2013), El vendedor de pájaros (2014) y La muerte es una vieja historia (2015). Todas han sido reeditadas varias veces en Chile, Argentina, México y España, y sus traducciones han sido publicadas en Francia, Italia, Alemania, Grecia, Portugal y Turquía. Además, su obra La contadora de películas ha sido traducida a más de quince idiomas y se hará una película sobre la misma. En 2001, Rivera Letelier fue nombrado Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras por el Ministerio de Cultura de Francia.