Half poetry and half prose, Puerto Montt follows down-and-out Rainer Kinrazip's journey -- from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Aires -- in the before-and-aftermath of three murders. The novel jumps back and forth through time, and through the echoes and whispers of literature itself. D (just D) is Kinrazip's mysterious companion throughout the tale. She perhaps has the most insight into what to make of these pages. "In order to solve a single crime, you must first solve the world in which it was committed," she says, quoting Kinrazip himself. This is also the task facing anyone who happens into these pages: to read and construct a constellation from the surreal, cracked stars scattered throughout the book. Perhaps, in this way, the reader may even make sense of the crime at its centre. Because here, the reader, not the writer is the creator. Graeme Krupinski was born and raised in Toronto before living in Argentina and Chile. His poetry and non-fiction has been published in journals and newspapers in English and Spanish. Puerto Montt is his first novel.