Length52m
About this audiobook
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.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreTrue Crime, Horror
Length52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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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