THE STEPS BETWEEN US

An upmarket thriller about the dramatic relationship between the daughter of a notorious Yugoslavian criminal, and a young investigator from Chile. When twenty years later they reunite in Rome, their roles are reversed. Set across Eastern Europe, London and Rome, this is a truly international novel of suspense, love and crime.

During a police raide on the family's estate, a journalist named Sebastiàn arrives to interview Maks, a notorious powerful figure from the Balkan mafia. But, he gets entangled in a relationship with Maks' daughter, the first person narrator, "A". Many years later, Sebastiàn plays an important role in Latin American politics while our narrator has started a new life in Rome and decides to disclose confidential information about her father's sinister businesses. When the poster-boy law enforcer and the converted daughter of a crime boss reunite, nothing is what it seems. Ana Maya is the pseudonym of a reclusive writer who lives in different European cities and believes that everything she needs to say about herself, is in her novel.