Who translated The Labyrinth of the Spirits into English?

Lucia Graves translated it. HarperCollins published the English edition in the United States on September 18, 2018, two years after Planeta released the Spanish original in November 2016.

Do I need to read the earlier Cemetery of Forgotten Books novels first?

It is the fourth and final novel of the cycle, after The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game and The Prisoner of Heaven, and it draws on events from them. Mauricio Valls, whose disappearance drives the plot, was introduced in The Prisoner of Heaven. The cycle's novels are interconnected rather than sequels in a strict sense, but readers are generally best served by starting with the first.

El laberinto de los espíritus

Rachel · 2026-07-28T22:01:15.000000Z

Me niego a evaluarlo. Leyendo una cosa del segundo libro en Internet, me hice spoilers de este sin querer, y el spoiler que me hice me disgustó tanto, me molestó tanto (no el hecho de que me haya hecho spoiler sin querer, sino lo que descubrí que ocurre en la historia), que me niego a leerlo. Creo que es un insulto a los personajes del primer libro, y que no, que no. Me niego. Esa idea me parece horrible. Por lo que simplemente me informé de lo que pasa a gran escala y cómo acaba. Ese spoiler me ha molestado por tanto tiempo... Aún, cuando escribo esto meses después, me molesta. Por lo que lo marqué como leído, no lo evalúo y me propongo a olvidar que este último libro existe. Me quedo con los dos primeros y ya está, así soy feliz.

Gothic Mystery

Pages: 925
Published: 2016
Language: Spanish

Synopsis

In 1950s Barcelona, Daniel Sempere runs his family's bookshop and is still haunted by the death of his mother, Isabella. With his wife Bea and his friend Fermín beside him, he begins to suspect that her death was no accident, and that the answer lies in the darkest corners of Franco's Spain.

When Mauricio Valls, a minister of the regime, disappears in 1959, Alicia Gris, a young agent of the secret police, is sent from Madrid to find him. Her investigation, alongside the police captain Juan Manuel Vargas, leads her to the Sempere family and to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

Published by Planeta in November 2016 and in English, translated by Lucia Graves, in 2018, this is the fourth and last novel of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books cycle. It moves between timelines and draws together the threads of the earlier books.

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