THRILLER A murderer shrouded in shadows, a rose, a chain of thorns. A floating forest where fear hides terrible secrets. Cortegada Island, 1910. The discovery of the body of a girl on the day of the massacre generates great commotion among the inhabitants of the estuary due to the circumstances and the atrocity of the crime. A culprit, the poet Guillermo de Foz. A condemnation, death by club. Monastery of Armenteira, Pontevedra, 2002. The restoration work of the cloister brings to light an unpublished notebook with the confession of the cursed writer Wilhelm of Foz. Antía Fontán, professor of Literature at the Sorbonne, will travel to Galicia to carry out a study on this finding. What he doesn't know is that his stay will transcend the professional. There she will discover a story of love and death, sinister interests and will be involved in a series of murders perpetrated by a criminal mastermind who follows the modus operandi of the fallen angels of literature. The nicknamed Rose Killer seems to have only one recipient: her. After the success of The Silence of the Waves and The Conspiracy of the Fog, the writer Ángela Banzas displays her narrative virtuosity and offers us a puzzle in which the tension increases with each page. The Shadow of the Rose is an agile novel, full of resonances and coups de effect, which explores the root of evil and connects us with the dark side of love and the bloodiest side of universal literature. Shadows, roses and thorns.