Author Dolores Redondo's Offering to the Storm explores many of the same themes as the previous two novels in the author's "Batzan" trilogy. Those themes include feminism, how patriarchal society is, the conflict between the underbelly of society and upstanding members of the same society, and the confluence of crime and magic.
Redondo has had a fascination with crime fiction for quite some time and wanted to write a story featuring a heroine - especially a heroine she loves as much as inspector Amaia Salazar. In Offering to the Storm, Salazar is tasked with investigating the suspicious death of a baby girl. The girl's death is initially ruled accidental, but Salazar thinks the girl was murdered because of the marks on her face. When the girl's father sees the girl's dead, lifeless body, he runs away suspiciously. This causes Amaia to question if the father killed his own daughter, or if someone else killed her. Amaia works hard to determine an answer to that question but discovers more than she bargains for.
At its core, Offering to the Storm is a novel that is meant to entertain and intrigue people above anything else. The novel is an exploration of the complicated relationship between parents, their children, and the police, as well as a commentary on feminism and the male-dominated police field. Speaking about the thesis of the novel and the series, Redondo said: "The first approach, the most obvious, resides in the fact that in the Baztán trilogy women and a matriarchal society prevailed, however this time I have gone to the other extreme, to the other side of the country, to a different landscape with totally different customs and way of life; a total patriarchy heavily influenced by Catholicism."
