Giorgio Faletti

Il pilota di elicotteri Jim Mackenzie, di madre nativo americana, ritorna dopo parecchi anni nell'immobile cittadina ai confini della riserva Navajo in cui è nato e ha trascorso l'adolescenza e da cui, come voleva con tutte le sue forze, si era allontanato parecchi anni prima. Si trova ora a fronteggiare una serie di inquietanti delitti, al limite dell'innaturale, tra cui quello di un suo vecchio amico, Caleb. Un essere maligno, risvegliato dal passato, sembrerebbe essere tornato per poter compiere un'antica maledizione. Jim si trova di fronte non solo al suo passato e agli errori commessi, ma anche a fare i conti con la propria natura e l'eredità dei suoi avi.

A serial killer holds New York in his grip. He does not choose his victims. Nor does he watch them die. But then there are too many of them for that. The explosion of a twenty-two storey building, followed by the casual discovery of a letter, lead the police to face up to a dreadful reality: some of New York's buildings were mined at the time of their construction. But which ones? And how many? A young female detective hiding her personal demons behind a tough appearance, and a former press photographer with a past he'd rather forget, and for which he still seeks forgiveness, are the only hope of stopping this psychopath. A man who does not even claim responsibility for his actions. A man who believes himself to be God.

When a body is found in a New York construction site detective Vivien Light is put on the case. The only things found near the body is a photo of two men in army gear and a man holding a cat with three legs. While Vivien with the help of discraced former press reporter Russell Wade investigate the city is rocked by an explosion of a twenty story building. They soon realise that extablishing the identity of the body and those in the photos will help to find who is blowing up the cities buildings and try to prevent futher death and destruction.

A murderer obsessed with comic strips. When Mayor Marsalis' son, Gerald, is found dead in his studio, his body is stained red and arranged like the cartoon character Linus - with a blanket next to his ear and his thumb stuck in his mouth. Desperate, Marsalis asks his ex-cop brother, Jordan, to investigate the murder. Yet the killer strikes again. This time Chandelle Stuart, a film producer with strange sexual predilections, is found leant against a piano like Lucy, listening to Shroeder playing. Meanwhile, a beautiful young detective Maureen Martini has moved from Rome to New York to forget the brutal murder of her boyfriend. After undergoing a corneal transplant, she starts having distressing visions that somehow seem connected with the grisly murders. Thrown together, Maureen and Jordan race against time to unmask this killer. But who is Snoopy? And who is Pig Pen? And why does this killer find pleasure in arranging his victims like comic-strip characters? In New York nothing is ever quite what it seems.