Nyquist Mysteries – serie

A private eye stalks a serial killer through a world divided into zones of perpetual Day, Night, and Dusk in this “disturbing and bizarre” sci-fi thriller from “one of the great masters of weird fiction” (Adrian Tchaikovsky, award-winning author of Children of Time).In a city divided into zones of perpetual Day, Night and Dusk, a lowly private eye attempts to save a teenage girl from the evil forces that seek to destroy her.Below the neon skies of Dayzone—where the lights never go out, and night has been banished—lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case. His quest takes him from Dayzone into the permanent dark of Nocturna.As the vicious, seemingly invisible serial killer known only as Quicksilver haunts the streets, Nyquist starts to suspect that the runaway girl holds within her the key to the city’s fate. In the end, there’s only one place left to search: the shadow-choked zone known as Dusk.

In a city where words come to life and reality is infected by stories, private eye John Nyquist wakes up in a room with a dead body… The dead man’s impossible whispers plunge him into a murder investigation like no other. Clues point him deeper into an unfolding story infesting its participants as reality blurs between place and genre. Only one man can hope to put it all together, enough that lives can be saved… That man is Nyquist, and he is lost.File Under: Science Fiction [ Murder He Wrote | Festival of Words | Stranger In Fiction | Odin’s Horse ]