Dark Peony - Vincent W. Mallory - Bog

Death is lurking amongst the equivocal high society of a rich Venetian town, where life is suddenly disturbed by the actions of a merciless assassin who uses strange rituals in killing his victims leaving no trace.
An ordinary employee, a detective inspector, an international mercenary searching for an identity .
A spine-chilling novel with all the flavour of a classic crime story but with dark undertones, as disturbing and rapid as the hand of the killer, as mysterious as the crime itself, with an exciting build-up which inexorably draws the reader into the storyline from the first page to the unusual ending..