People may or may not realize, but the things we read, watch, or listen all day can have an effect on our psyche. Take the case of Maria Carolina Geel (pen name of real-life author Georgina Silva Jimenez). According to her admirer, Gabriela Mistral, a Nobel laureate in literature, Geel was following in the footsteps of another real-life Chilean novelist, Maria Luisa Bombal. In January 1941, Bombal shot her lover, Eulogio Sanchez Errazuriz, in the arm three times at the same Crillon hotel in Santiago, where Geel killed Roberto Pumarino Valenzuela on April 14, 1955. It would be safe to assume that Geel was heavily influenced by Bombal and was probably trying to recreate history by killing Roberto. Or she’d hit a writer’s block and was trying to find inspiration for her next piece. In prison, Geel wrote one of her most celebrated books, Carcel de mujeres (or Women’s Prison...