by José Carlos Somoza · ARETE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439709879
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«La dama número trece» is the mystery novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Areté in hardback (456 pages, in Spanish).
Salomón Rulfo, an unemployed literature professor, suffers a recurring nightmare: an unknown house, a triple murder, and a woman desperately asking for his help. When he discovers the house exists and the woman was really murdered, he ventures, along with a doctor and a young woman with an enigmatic past, into an investigation where words and poetry hide a disturbing power.
First edition published in 2003 by Areté (Random House Mondadori), in Barcelona. Novel of 456 pages in hardback.
Recommended for readers of crime and mystery fiction with a lyrical atmosphere and plots that challenge the reader.
José Carlos Somoza Ortega is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for being from a bourgeoisie class. His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child. And there were a lot of friends who helped them a lot during their first years in Spain. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994. Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain. And his first book was published the same year. When his fifth novel The Cave of Ideas obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life.
