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Skaska, the Magnitude of Sadness - Drina Steinberg

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When one night in the Sokol mountains goes wrong, one boy's life must be saved. One woman who holds the title of the most cold-blooded and most dangerous special agent gets a new job. A job that she believes will provide her with easy earnings. The last of the three brothers from the knightly line Radj will try to free himself and his offspring from the age-old curse. In the land where everything flourishes and gives birth, in the mystical region over which the Mrkodol mountains tower, the secret about Radjevo and the curse of their descendants is hidden. Regardless of all the adversities that beset them, the Radjes survived. Will it survive when the song, sung with immeasurable sadness, is heard through Radjevo? Will it survive then "when the pain becomes infinite, when death erases all meaning of life"? Because "Radj listens to the same story, his own story, from the first night when his mother nurses him. He germinates and grows with her. He breathes, lives and le...

The Executioner - Chris Carter

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In a Los Angeles church, on the steps of the altar, lies the bloody, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully placed, legs spread, arms folded across chest, and most horrific of all, the priest's head has been replaced with a dog's. The forensics team later discovers that the number three is written in blood on the victim's chest. Inspector Robert Hunter initially believes it was a ritual murder. But after the discovery of new corpses, he changes his mind. All the victims died in the way they feared the most. Their worst nightmares had come true. But how could the killer know about it? And what connects these seemingly randomly selected victims? Hunter sets out in pursuit of an elusive, sadistic killer, a person who seems to have the power to read the minds of his victims, who can sense what scares them the most. For someone who will stop at nothing to achieve his sick plan. The Executioner, Dželat as it is translated in Serbia, is the second novel about the detective duo Hu...

Black Moon Rising - Aleksandar Tešić

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 The world's largest mining company came to search for gold in Homolje... They found something else! While a series of mysterious deaths shakes the small town of Homolj, horror, raw passions and dangerous secrets are looming behind the scenes of tradition and strict lore. Inspector Uroš Stanojević was transferred from Belgrade to an unfamiliar environment where he is suddenly faced with brutal murders that the locals turn their heads to. Angelija Kerčulj is an archaeologist who excavates the site of Belovode from the Neolithic period and discovers traces of a cult that is millennia old and has survived to the present day. A black moon is an astronomical phenomenon in which the new moon appears twice in the same month and repeats every 29 months. He is traditionally associated with the Great Forest Mother... Muma Paduri Black Moon Rising is an original and beautiful mix of horror and folklore with a touch of history and archaeology. With this novel, Tešić repeated his art of telling...