When a series of murders shakes Madrid, Inspector Vega Martín investigates the country’s most famous influencer couple. She soon discovers that behind their perfect façade lies a spiral of jealousy, manipulation, and death that exposes the darkest side of fame.
In Madrid, Inspector Vega Martín and her partner Daniel Haro face one of the most high-profile and disturbing cases of their careers: the case of the “Glove Killer,” a criminal who strangles young, beautiful women with surgical precision and cleans every crime scene with bleach, erasing any trace. Four victims —all with seemingly perfect lives— have already fallen, and the investigation points to an unexpected suspect: Hugo Sanz, a successful influencer and bestselling author, known for projecting the image of a “perfect couple” on social media alongside Astrid Rubio, the most followed influencer in the country.
Behind the cameras, their relationship is a battlefield. Astrid is manipulative, jealous, and violent; Hugo, a frustrated and dependent man, is trapped in a persona that doesn’t belong to him. He believes he’s losing his mind when he begins to suffer memory lapses and fears that his erotic asphyxiation practices may have crossed a line without him remembering it. Vega, haunted by her past with a serial killer, senses that behind Hugo’s glamorous, like-filled façade hides a predator —but she has no idea that the real monster is actually sleeping next to him.
Meanwhile, Andrés Almeida, father of the first victim, begins his own crusade. Convinced of Hugo’s guilt, he launches a social media campaign under the profile @theperfectcoupleisafraud, leaking compromising images and videos that dismantle the influencers’ fake happiness. His obsession leads him all the way to Thailand, where Hugo and Astrid are enjoying a sponsored vacation. There, Andrés sets a trap: he hires a local dancer, Malai, to seduce Hugo and record his excesses with hidden cameras.
But the plan takes a brutal turn. Consumed by jealousy, Astrid shows up at the cabin and murders Malai in cold blood, revealing her true nature: she is the Glove Killer. For months, she has been following Hugo’s lovers, strangling them, and cleaning the scenes, manipulating his mind until he believed he was the culprit.
As Andrés’s leaked videos go viral and Vega fights to stop the tragedy, the couple flees Thailand, stealing the identities of tourists to escape justice. Back in their Madrid hideout, their relationship finally collapses. Hugo, ready to confess, is murdered by Astrid in a fit of rage.
The case ends with Astrid’s arrest in a catatonic state, and Vega uncovering a network of police corruption tied to the cover-up of the case.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: Lorena Franco is a writer and actress from Barcelona. She began self-publishing on Amazon and is now one of the platform’s most successful and highly rated authors. Considered the queen of audiobooks, she has been translated into multiple languages. She has been a finalist twice for the Amazon Storyteller Literary Award —in 2016 and 2022— and her novels have accumulated thousands of positive reviews.
La pareja perfecta (es un fraude) is a novel that blends suspense, drama, and social critique in a highly contemporary story. Filled with unexpected twists and sustained tension, the plot has strong potential for an audiovisual adaptation. With echoes of Gone Girl and You, it tackles current themes such as manipulation on social media, toxic fame, and the thin line between love and obsession, making it an ideal contemporary thriller.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV series, Miniseries, Film, TV Movie.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish.
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