This is a short book (this particular English translation was just over 100 pages) in which the narrator tells the story of the assassination of Santiago Nasar, a character in a small remote village.

I found the book to be wonderfully written: the style masterfully combines the events, the first person observations by the narrator, the investigation results, and the results of his research decades later, adding incrementally to the picture of what happened on that day. This makes it intriguing and gripping. The style also includes many locally beautiful descriptions of people, situations, environment and events.