Círculo del Crimen: Hielo (I)

This Spanish-language edition of Ed McBain's detective novel *Hielo* (Ice, 1983) presents a multi-detective procedural set in the fictional city of Isola. The narrative opens with a young female dancer from the musical production *Fatback* leaving the theater in heavy snow around 11:50 PM. Walking home through a relatively safe neighborhood, she is shot three times at close range by an assailant emerging from a building entrance—first in the chest, then twice more in the face. The body is discovered by Dominick Bonaccio, a bank security guard returning home after midnight via metro. Detectives Henry Levine and Ralph Coombes from Midtown East arrive at the crime scene, where homicide detectives Monoghan and Monroe are already present. The novel introduces an extensive cast of precinct detectives, other police personnel, and characters connected to the theater company and the victim's circles, suggesting a complex investigation into what appears to be an unmotivated killing amid the winter landscape.