Cadence of the Moon

The psychopath and a journalist's dilemma

A series of murders committed with dreadful sadism by a psychopathic killer shakes Costa Rica like one of the earth tremors that periodically bedevil Central America. The police and the press try to uncover the murderer's grisly trail - leading to a passionate encounter between a detective and an astonishing female reporter whose charms are her most powerful investigative tool.

Cadence of the Moon is a tale of love and mystery based on the Costa Rica's first known case of a serial killer. Its characters are men and women of flesh and blood, strength and frailty. Núñez Olivas draws upon the details of a notorious unsolved crime that horrified this small country to weave a story that juggles the dilemmas faced by journalists driven by a professional ethic yet living by the rules of the real world.

Óscar Núñez Olivas has that rare gift of the storyteller - an aptitude for compelling narration combined with a dexterity that allows him to address the issues that real people have to face in their daily lives.
The Latin American Review of Books

Óscar Núñez Olivas is a Costa Rican journalist and author.

His first two novels were El teatro circular (1996), which won the Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana's best Latin American novel prize and Costa Rica's National Prize, and Los Gallos de San Esteban (2000).