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>