A city is always a cemetery. When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the
corpse of a man in a dark alley she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body
scrawled in coral nail polish: ?Beware of me my love beware of the silent woman in the
desert.' After reporting the crime to the police the professor becomes the lead informant of
the case led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures
on her back. But what has the professor really seen? While more bodies of men are found across
the city the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems and the darker stream of
violence spreading throughout the city. From one of Mexico's greatest living writers Death
Takes Me is a dark and dazzling literary thriller that flips the traditional crime narrative on
its head in a world where death is rampant and violence is gendered. Unfolding with the
charged logic of a dream in sentences as sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims - a
word which in Spanish is always feminine - it explores with masterful imagination the
unstable terrains of desire and sexuality. PRAISE FOR CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA 'Warning:
Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer. A dexterous creator of atmospheres with a
powerful style an evocative and indomitable language' Lina Merwane 'A masterful storyteller'
Jennifer Clement
