Pages: 352 pages
ISBN: 0886778794
Publisher: DAW Books Inc.
Publication Date: July 1, 1998

In the last days of Summer 1934 the lower half of a female torso washes up on the shores of Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland, Ohio. Those remains are the beginning of Detective Stefan Ryzard’s descent into Hell.

In the years that follow the discovery, headlines proclaim the efforts of Safety Director Eliot Ness’ hunt for the soon-infamous “Torso Killer.” And while the police are persuing a psychopath who’s leaving a trail of dismembered corpses behind him, Stefan Ryzard is trapped in a hunt for somone— something— much darker. . . .

And finding the truth might cost him his soul.

Note: This novel is now published as part of the Blood & Rust omnibus.

[A] powerful, dark, even harsh, horror novel of vampires and serial murder in Depression-era Cleveland.
—Locus

” Rraises the standard for all vampire fiction to aspire toward.

Alecia N. Conner, Amazon Reader