Blackbird

Missing children, old crimes, and paths that cross again after many years

2023. Leaves are flying outside, the Beatles are playing in the summerhouse, and Roman receives a message that brings back unhappy memories. His friend Tomáš, to whom he is connected by a dark event in their childhood, has had an accident. Shortly afterwards, a boy pupil of Roman’s disappears. Coincidence? Or repetition of the horror Roman and Tomáš survived as children? Roman must discover the truth at all costs. And he is not the only one with a special interest in the case. Alexander Patera, a former criminal investigator whose life was also marked by the disappearance of both children, cannot stand idly by. Old clues reemerge, leading to a perpetrator who should have ceased to exist long ago. Patera and Roman find themselves on the same path, as they seek to uncover the truth about an evil that is still around years after its last appearance.

By a series of unexpected twists, this suspense-filled thriller unravels the dramatic stories of its characters from horrific events of a dark past.

‘For me, Blackbird is principally a story about heroism that depends not on the darkness we have experienced but the light still left in us,’ explains the author. ‘It is about bonds with a dual character: they either immobilize us or bind us to another person so tightly that we feel their closeness even when they are no longer there.’

The author brilliantly unfolds a chilling plot filled with disturbing clues, drawing the reader into a thrilling race against time. Shadows of the past fuse unexpectedly with recent events. Till the very last moment, the reader is in the dark about who is the real winner in this terrifying story.

Editors of Host Publishers