Varhaiset kirja-arvostelijatErnesto Spinelli

"Mr. Detective, I want you to find my comic book."

Eight-year-old Amanda's request seems simple enough. Her errant Daddy is the prime suspect. Mark Desmond's search leads him down one of the weirdest paths in his PI career: the world of comic books. Complicating matters, he becomes romantically involved with Amanda's mother, Martine.

At the same time, Desmond's cop pal, Alex Darblay, faces a growing number of unusual homicides that seem to have no purpose other than that of murdering victims in various outlandish ways.

As both investigations progress, an unexpected link between them becomes apparent. Soon enough, whoever is behind the 'Comic Book Murders' begins to zero in on Desmond and those close to him.

To solve the mystery, Desmond must open himself to experiencing the wildest reaches of love and despair. Doing so, he will discover that Everything Has a Price.

Just over six weeks since she entered PI Mark Desmond's life, Renata Genzler is unexpectedly, and brutally, murdered. Determined to track down his newfound lover's killer, and to honor his promise to find her missing brother, Desmond is drawn into a web of lies, all of which have one question at their center: who was Renata?

Taking its inspiration from the classic hard-boiled crime tradition, Scorpio's Children is the first novel in the Mark Desmond series. It's 1980. Investigator Mark Desmond is hired to snatch the daughter of Jefferson City's wealthiest citizen away from the control of a sinister cult calling itself Scorpio's Children. Duplicity and death stalk Desmond's enquiries while every step he takes pushes him toward a collision between a past he's done his best to erase and a present that's empty of dreams. It's 1980. Rag-tag revolutionaries are kicking sand into the Super-Powers' faces. It's the dawn of the Personal Computer Age. Populist agendas are re-shaping societies. And cults of every kind are on the rise. It's 1980. Everything's different. Nothing has changed.