{"product_id":"9781526649454","title":"Death Takes Me : from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Cristina Rivera Garza\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 March 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 129 x 24 | 216g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025‘A labyrinthine masterpiece’ New York Times‘A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story’ TIME‘Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory’ Layla Martinezbeware of me, my lovebeware of the silent woman in the desert…These are the words the Professor finds, scrawled in nail polish, above the mutilated corpse of a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe reports the crime to the police and becomes the first informant in an investigation led by the Detective, who has a newfound obsession with poetry. As the bodies of more men are discovered alongside cryptic lines of verse, it becomes clear that this is only one in a string of crimes – all connected, all with literary clues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the Professor becomes wrapped up in the murders, the boundaries of story – and of genre – break down. Can the Detective decipher the meaning of the poems in time to stop the spread of violence?Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47896450040067,"sku":"9781526649454","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781526649454.jpg?v=1775046711","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781526649454","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}