Chronicle of a Death Foretold opens Goodreads in a new tab

From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society, not just a pair of murderers, on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying Angela Vicario, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents, and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene?