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I Stockholm beslutar sig plötsligt Per Dunker för att ställa sig bredvid. Bredvid allt; sitt liv, sina vänner, sig själv och samhället. Snart sker en serie underliga kvinnoöverfall i Lund. Gärningsmannen agerar likt en skugga och polisen har inga spår. En kriminalroman om människors drömmar och brustna illusioner. K (Karl) Arne Blom föddes den 22 januari 1946 och uppväxt i Nässjö i Småland. Han är en svensk författare, översättare och ledamot i Skånska Deckarsällskapet och Svenska Deckarakademin.

Pregnant with her first child and a recent convert to Judaism, artist Kali Miller at last understands the joy of being part of a loving family. But Kali must put her cosseted life on hold to care for her 93-year-old non-Jewish grandmother who has inexplicably lit dozens of sacred Yahrzeit Memorial candles throughout her decaying Miami Beach home, almost burning it down. Kali probes her enigmatic grandmother Lillian for an explanation and information about her roots, but Lillian becomes increasingly paranoid.

The fire may be out, but smoke and suspicion still linger in Santa Lucia. Though the townspeople still gather for espresso at the town cafe and swap recipes at the butcher shop, their iridescent blue sky is clouded by a veil of uncertainty and mistrust. The statue of the Madonna, set in a wall outside the cafe, watches it all in collected silence. But when New Yorker Alessandro arrives to claim his inheritance - the derelict castle and the charred olive trees that surround it - it unearths secrets thought long buried.

It's late May 1944. Captain Billy Boyle is court-martialed on spurious charges of black-market dealings. Stripped of his officer's rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months' hard labor, Boyle is given an opportunity: He can avoid his punishment if he goes behind enemy lines to rescue a high-value Allied soldier.

Two weeks earlier: Nicholas, in Cologne Cathedral waiting for instructions from Seth, falls in love with Marina, a mysterious gypsy. When he senses that Peter is in deadly danger in Rome he finds himself transported into his brother's body. Peter, in the body of Nicholas is on his way back to Cologne with Urs Bühler when he discovers another amulet on a statue of a Black Madonna. The symbol leads him to Burma where Hell is waiting for him.

Ein geheimer Orden, der sich auf eine jahrhundertealte Prophezeiung stützt, will den Weltuntergang herbeiführen. Nur der Journalist Peter Adam kann dies verhindern. Dabei scheint er selbst der Schlüssel zur Apokalypse zu sein... Episode 6 - Schwarze Madonna: Zwei Wochen zuvor: Nikolas wartet in Köln auf Anweisungen von Seth und verliebt sich in Marina, eine geheimnisvolle Roma. Als er spürt, dass Peter in Rom in tödlicher Gefahr schwebt, findet er sich kurz darauf in dessen Körper wieder.