The new novel by Maxim Jakubowski, the “King of the Erotic Thriller” (The Times)A young Italian woman flees her home in Rome and gets involved with the wrong man in Paris.Cornelia, the fearless stripper and killer for hire, who proved such a hit in previous novels, is back and on another mission to kill.As the two women’s paths intersect, an English crime writer down on his luck is mistaken for a private eye and goes on a quest for a missing person.From New York to Paris, and then on a thrilling journey through Barcelona, Tangiers, Venice and then finally to a small medieval town outside Rome, the waltz with darkness of the three characters in search of love, lust and redemption becomes ever more poignant and mysterious.Sexy, sad, breathless, a memorable tale of lost souls caught in a spider’s web of their own making.

The writing is a joy, dancing nimbly between the erotic and the thriller. There will be many books this year, screaming for your attention, few will satisfy you on every level like this amazing book.— Ken Bruen