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In 2003 on the Costa del Sol a teenage girl was found dead having gone missing on the night of her local fiesta. Her murder bore remarkable similarities to the murder of another teenage girl nearby four years previously, for which a lesbian woman named Dolores Vazquez had been sentenced to 15 years following one of Spain's most controversial trials. As the Spanish police slowly groped towards an awful new possibility, the resulting picture sent shivers through the Spanish people. The picture that has emerged is of a serial killer on their hands who held a history they could never have guessed at from his passport. This is a story that reaches shockingly close to home, closer than you may wish; a story of one nation's collective sexual paranoia and another's dark secrets; and a story to make anyone think twice before setting out by foot on a dark night on the Costa. Including exclusive interviews with all those involved, this is essential true crime reading.