Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Fragility of Bodies | 2012 | Sergio S. Olguín | N/A |
| 2 | The Fragility of Bodies / La fragilidad de los cuerpos | 2012 | Sergio S. Olguín | Buy |
| 3 | The Foreign Girls / Las extranjeras | 2014 | Sergio S. Olguín | Buy |
| 4 | There Are No Happy Loves / No hay amores felices | 2016 | Sergio S. Olguín | Buy |
| 5 | The Best Enemy / La mejor enemiga | 2021 | Sergio S. Olguín | Buy |
The Veronica Rosenthal series opens in 2012 with The Fragility of Bodies — a novel that takes its time before the violence begins, building Veronica as a character and Buenos Aires as a city before the case reveals itself. The case, when it emerges, involves a ring of powerful men orchestrating something deeply criminal, and Veronica’s investigation requires her to use every professional tool she has alongside some she technically should not.
Each subsequent novel in the series takes Veronica into a different corner of Buenos Aires’s entangled worlds of power, crime, and journalism. The Foreign Girls (2014) moves her into a case involving women from outside the city. There Are No Happy Loves (2016) is the most personally difficult case of the series. The Best Enemy (2021) arrived after a five-year gap and showed Olguin returning to the character with new complexity and slightly darker stakes.
The English translations by Miranda France — a literary translator with her own reputation in Latin American literature — preserve the Buenos Aires texture and Veronica’s voice with care. All four are published by Bitter Lemon Press, the UK specialist in international crime fiction.