The Nosferatu Scroll |
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| Authors: | Becker, James |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC022060, FIC030000, FIC022080 |
| ISBN: | 9781101575475, Related ISBNs: 045123619X, 1101575476, 9780451236197, 9781101575475 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 480, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
On the northern banks of the Vltava River, an extraordinary event is taking place. Inside a private chapel, a high-born Hungarian lady is being laid to rest. But not before her heart is removed from her body, and she is buried beneath a layer of heavy stones - lest she rise again to prey upon her victims ...
VENICE, 2010
Holidaying in the world's most beautiful city, Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis discover a desecrated tomb. Inside it is a female skeleton and an arcane diary dating back hundreds of years. Written in Latin, it references a scroll that will provide an 'answer' to an ancient secret.
Soon corpses of young women, all killed in the same ritualistic manner, start appearing throughout the city. And when Angela disappears, Bronson knows that he must find her before she too is slaughtered.
But Bronson's hunt for Angela leads him back to the Island of the Dead, and into a conspiracy more deadly than he could ever have imagined ...
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