A collection of Michele Petrucci's first two critically-acclaimed works. Keires, in ancient Greek, means "hands" -- the essence ofcreation. As a killer murders and mutilates his victims without any apparentlogic, a misogynist detective, a university teacher searching for perfection, asculptor trying to forget his awful past, and a group of students get involvedin a thrilling tale of blood and suspicion. Everything revolves around amysterious death that will lead the characters to a bitter end, where innocenceand guilt mix together and truth proves herself to be just the last work createdby the hands of man. With Silver Salts, Petrucci takes the concept of truth one stepfurther. It all begins when Bob Keller, photographer of the Los AngelesHerald, gets a call to cover a simple murder story. But Bob is used tolooking at details through the lens of his camera, and knows the truth is not asit seems. Things hidden inside his own mind will slowly be revealed like alatent image developed with the help of the silversalts.