Lady number 13. Jose Carlos Somoza

A gripping intellectual thriller from the bestselling author of The Cave of Ideas!

Madrid philologist Rulfo meets a woman who has the same mysterious dreams as he does. Above all, brutal murders and beautiful poems weigh heavily. But it soon becomes clear that these poems hide more than just a literary mystery. The investigation gradually draws Rulfo into a disturbing and bizarre world, where words acquire dangerous power, and the line between poetry and reality begins to blur. “Lady Number 13” is an atmospheric intellectual thriller and at the same time a sophisticated play on literary tradition. In this novel, Spanish writer José Carlos Somoza combines a tense plot with reflections on the nature of creativity, the power of the poetic word and the dark sides of inspiration.