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Clara Voss hasn't left her apartment in over a year. Once a leading expert in criminal psychology, now she lives locked away in a crumbling flat in Edinburgh, surrounded by case files, medication, and silence. The outside world is no longer of interest-until she receives a nameless video file. In it, a young woman appears staged in front of a mirror. She is not just dead-she's been arranged. The lighting, the angle, the word written in lipstick... Everything is intentional. And Clara recognizes the design, the mind behind it. Meanwhile, detective Inés Dávila is tracking a series of ritualistic murders across the country. Each scene appears immaculately planned, eerily silent, and obsessively precise. No fingerprints. No motives. Only symbols. Only structure. Each body a line in a story. And all of them seem to orbit around one name: Clara Voss. But Clara is not the next victim. She is the intended audience. The killer is not killing for pleasure. He's performing. Each murder is a scene. Each death, a message. And Clara is the only one who might understand what's being said. The Ninth Footprint is not a traditional thriller. It's a literary descent into obsession, perception, and the human hunger to be seen. With echoes of Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn, and the psychological density of The Silence of the Lambs, Gabriel Véliz delivers a dark, elegant novel where the greatest act of violence might be understanding itself. Told through alternating perspectives, haunting imagery, and a tension that grows by the page, this novel explores not just who the killer is, but what it means to become the mirror of someone else's mind. What happens when the victim reads back? And when the story ends... does the reader walk away clean? Contains psychological intensity, symbolic violence, and mature themes. Recommended for adult readers.

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