Between February 1935 and April 1936, Dolors Coït, a petite 21-year-old woman with "beautiful, naive, and curious eyes," according to the press of the time, fatally poisoned five people: her mother-in-law, her husband, her brother-in-law, her brother-in-law's wife, and her son. The crime took place in Granja de Escarpe, a farming village in the Segrià region that now has a thousand inhabitants, and where Anna Sàez Mateu (1969) grew up. The director of the newspaper Segre Not only was he born in the same town, but he also lived in the same house where three of the victims died. "I'd been approached to write a book about these crimes before, but I'd always said no because it's a well-documented story and didn't offer much. Until I realized it connected with me," explains Sàez, who has just published The poisoner (Portico), which has as a subtitle A rural serial killer.