Bolano, R: The Skating Rink

When Nuria Martí, the Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, an admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of a mansion on the outskirts of town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds. Soon the skating rink becomes a crime scene ... THE SKATING RINK - narrated in turn by a corrupt civil servant, a romantic poet, and a duplicitous local entrepreneur - is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.