num_pages: 357
description: A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond Virginia bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books. Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on similar murder cases committed the same way but half a world away. And both murders are somehow connected to a sixteenth century palimpsest bookThe Book of Johnwhich appears to be a journal of a serial murderer back in 1529 Norway a book bound in human skin.
language: English
title: Where Monsters Dwell
publisher: Minotaur Books