The Papyrus Trilogy

<p>A series of mysterious deaths in the Papyrus Bookstore brings literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukic to investigate. Together with the attractive owner Vera Gavrilovic they discover the elusive Last Book is responsible. Seemingly causeless deaths multiply the National Security Agency a secret apocalyptic sect and others are drawn in and the secrets of immortality death and reality itself are revealed in a masterful trilogy that demonstrates the magical and ultimately benevolent power of literature.</p><p>Includes<em> The Last Book The Grand Manuscript</em> and <em>The Compendium of the Dead</em>.</p><p>Serbian master fantasist Zivkovic has written what may be the most delicious mystery by a speculative-fiction specialist since Stanislaw Lem's mind-boggling <em>The Investigation</em> (1974). Unlike Lem's novel it is also a discreet witty love story.-Publishers Weekly USA</p>