A tale of magic and murder
The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police-but each death is somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro.
"There is no better writer now than Charles de Lint at bringing out the magic in everyday life." -Orson Scott Card
"In de Lint's capable hands, modern fantasy becomes something other than escapism. It becomes folk song, the stuff of urban myth." -The Phoenix Gazette