Cristiana Astori Book order (chronological)

Susanna Marino, una studentessa squattrinata laureata in cinema, viene incaricata da un misterioso collezionista torinese di ritrovare una preziosa pellicola degli anni Venti, scomparsa durante l’occupazione nazista. Il regista è l’ungherese Károly Lajthay, il titolo Drakula halála. Si dice infatti che sia questo, e non il Nosferatu di Murnau, il primo film in cui compare il personaggio di Dracula di Bram Stoker; nessuno però è mai riuscito a trovarlo, o, se l’ha fatto, non l’ha potuto raccontare. La pellicola pare infatti maledetta, e una mano misteriosa uccide chiunque tenti di venirne in possesso. Una volta giunta a Budapest, Susanna dovrà muoversi in una città dalle atmosfere espressioniste, tra tetti acuminati e oscuri sotterranei, in mezzo a cacciatori di pellicole privi di scrupoli, poliziotti sospettosi e ambigui musicisti noise, lungo una pista di sangue che affonda le radici in un tragico passato.

California Bureau of Investigation Special agent Kathryn Dance is an expert in kinesics: the science of interpreting behaviour. It makes her a brilliant interrogator. But she's up against Daniel Pell, a master of control who mesmerises, seduces and exploits people for his own murderous ends. A convicted killer who is known as The Son of Manson for the chilling parallels between him and the notorious ritual murderer. To track down Pell before he destroys yet more lives, Kathyn Dance must enlist the help of four people from the killer's past. The three women who lived under his sadistic sway in the cult he once headed. And the young girl known as the Sleeping Doll, the only survivor of her family's slaughter at Pell's hands . . .

Location scouting is to the film business what Switzerland is to war. John Pellam had been in the trenches of filmmaking, with a promising Hollywood career - until a tragedy sidetracked him. Now he's a location scout, who travels the country in search of shooting sites for films. When he rides down Main Street, locals usually clamor for their chance at fifteen minutes of fame. But in a small town in upstate New York, Pellam experiences a very different reception - his illusionary world is shattered by a savage murder, and Pellam is suddenly center stage in an unfolding drama of violence, lust, and conspiracy, which have a stranglehold on this less-than-picture-perfect locale.