Death Takes Me

<p><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025</b><br><br><b>A <i>TIME </i>MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025</b><br><br>‘A labyrinthine masterpiece’ <i>New York Times<br></i>‘A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story’ <i>TIME</i><br>‘Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory’ <b>Layla Martinez</b><b><br><br><i>beware of me, my love</i><br><i>beware of the silent woman in the desert…</i></b><br><br>These are the words the Professor finds, scrawled in nail polish, above the mutilated corpse of a man.<br><br>She 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.<br><br>As 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?<br><br>Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers</p>