by Jose Carlos Somoza · Random House Espanol · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781400087587
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«La dama número trece» is the thriller novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Random House Espanol in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
Salomón Rulfo, an unemployed professor and poetry lover, suffers a recurring nightmare about a strange house and a triple murder. When he verifies the crime was real, he goes to Dr. Ballesteros. With an enigmatic young woman and a former university professor, he discovers that thirteen ladies use poetry as a weapon to control fate.
Originally published in 2003.
Will appeal to readers of thriller and mystery novels with supernatural elements and a literary backdrop.
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.
