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The Shadow of Maje: The Patraix Case

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The Shadow of Maje: The Patraix Case

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The Shadow of Maje: The Patraix Case

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How far can a lie go when it wears the face of love? Valencia, Spain. In the quiet neighborhood of Patraix, a man is found stabbed to death in the underground garage of his home. There are no witnesses. No signs of forced entry. Just a woman who weeps without tears—and a man who claims he killed out of love. The Shadow of Maje: The Patraix Case is a literary true crime novel based on a real event that shook Spain. More than a chronicle of a murder, this is a psychological dissection of obsession, silence, and betrayal within a seemingly ordinary life. With haunting prose and narrative precision, Javier Soto reconstructs the emotional and ethical anatomy of a crime that was both intimate and premeditated. Merging documentary rigor with literary depth, the novel draws from court records, real conversations, forensic evidence, and imagined monologues to show not only how the crime happened—but how it was allowed to happen. This is not a story about monsters. It’s a story about people.

Domestic Thriller

Hidden Identity

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Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)

GenreTrue Crime, Horror

Length52 mins

Narrated bySelect Your Own

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateJun 24, 2025

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Foreword

13Chapter 10: The theater of the living

2Chapter 1: The corpse

14Chapter 13: Shopping at the hardware store

3Chapter 2: Her before the crime

15Chapter 14: Life Insurance

4Chapter 3: Versions

16Chapter 15: Her version

5Chapter 4: The other name

17Chapter 16: The day that did not end

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6Chapter 5: The messages you did not delete

18Chapter 17: Letter without seal

7Chapter 6: The other Joseph

19Chapter 18: What Remains

8Chapter 7: What he did not want to see

20Epilogue

9Chapter 8: The crack

21Author's note

10Chapter 9: Interception

22Acknowledgments

11Chapter 10: Sweet lies

23Chronology of the Patraix case

12Chapter 12: The end of normality

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