Love, death and everything bad
E-book, Czech
Love, death and everything bad
A family gathering at a remote estate turns into a nightmare from which no one might escape alive…
Funerals are usually sombre affairs. But for the Raven family, the death of the embittered patriarch Isaiah is more of a relief—especially when it comes to their financial problems. The aloof old man had amassed a fortune over his lifetime, one that many would be willing to kill for, and the only condition to inherit it is to spend a night at a remote estate high in the Krkonoše Mountains.
And so, Isaiah's relatives begin to converge on Rabenštejn Castle from near and far, and you can probably imagine how smoothly such a gathering goes. And that's even before night falls and the first of them dies in an inexplicable (and inexplicably bloody) way. Then another. And another and another.
While everyone tries to save their own skin, Agáta, the adopted daughter of Isaiah's niece, tries to find out who is behind the murders. Is it one of those present, or do they all have solid alibis and there's someone... or something... else at the castle with the Ravens?
And Then There Were None through the lens of Guillermo del Toro. The nightmares will haunt you long after you've finished reading!
Martin Paytok
Martin Paytok comes from Jilemnice but lives in Prague. He spent many years writing about computer games and films for inGamer.cz, the website of XB-1 magazine, and SCORE magazine. He currently works as an editor at the publishing house Mystery Press. His work, in which he often combines crime plots with elements of supernatural horror, is influenced by Donald E. Westlake, Garth Ennis, and the Kulhánek school of action. You may have encountered his writing in anthologies such as Kladivo na čaroděje: O krok před peklem, Lovci monster: Fantom, or Krev, monstra a cukroví, and in the pages of Pevnost magazine. He made his book debut with the frantic slaughterhouse of a novel, Prokletí pro všechny, based on the idea of what would happen if Guy Ritchie directed a horror film. When he's not writing, he's watching Shane Black films and hunting for missing volumes of McBain's 87th Precinct in second-hand bookshops.
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