Plot:
Prague in the beginning of the 20th century. Dejan Sirco works as a private investigator for occult affairs together with his apprentice Mirko, his friend Lysander Sutcliffe, whose spirit happens to reside in the body of an otter and has done so for quite a while, and often with the help of sex worker Esther. Dejan’s old friend Felix Trubic comes back into his life and with a case no less: there’s a curse on his family and if Dejan can’t solve it, Felix will be dead soon. But there is more to this curse than just a family affair – from vampires to political upheaval.

There are a lot of things to like about this book – not the least of which is that it was written by an Austrian and that it’s setting is rather unusual for a fantasy novel, but altogether it felt more meh than anything else.

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