This crime-fiction parody brimming with pop-culture references not only establishes Laura Fernández as one of the most original voices in Spanish literature, but also one who continues to fascinate with her unpredictable characters, hilarious dialogue, and inexhaustible narrative imagination.

At age twenty-eight, Wendolin Kramer is still living with her parents, reading comics, and thinking she’s Supergirl. From an improvised office in her bedroom, she fantasizes about becoming a private detective on the streets of a ghostly Barcelona. Everything changes when a real case comes knocking on her door, and she’s not sure what to do. Why are they asking her to find out where, on a specific day, the writer Francis Dómino is? And what’s the relationship between him and the bestselling author Vendolin Woolfin?