The chronicle of a death foretold begins when a man arrives back to the town where a perplexing murder occurred twenty seven years prior to his return. Determined to figure out the details of the story; and just hours after marrying the dazzling Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his newly-wed bride in disgrace to her parents due to her lack of virginity. Her ashamed family forced her to name the man that took her virginity; afterwards her twin brothers Pablo and Pedro Vicario, announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister and the family name. Though everyone knew the murder was going to happen, nobody tried to intervene or attempt to stop it. The more that is learned, the less that is understood, and as the story leaps to its inexplicable conclusion, and rather than just the murders, the entire society is...