Tarot

Dan Caponigro, nicknamed Cap, resigned from the FBI when his daughter Laurie, still a baby, was kidnapped and murdered by a sect of worshipers of Satan. Since then, he has devoted his energy to researching murderers who have never been identified and is taking part in seminars as a specialist in esotericism. One day, after one of his lectures on occult crimes, a participant, a young policeman, suggests that he examine a few snapshots of the scene of a crime he is investigating. Looking at the photos, Cap realizes that the killers have left as a signature a pentacle identical to the one engraved ten years earlier near the corpse of his daughter.

In an isolated country church of a small black community, the pastor found a naked, white man in his twenties, hung by one foot at the cross of a large wooden cross standing behind the altar. Under the victim's head, a pentacle traced on the pavement with his blood. This particular sign takes Cap ten years back to the murder of his own daughter. The assassins have never been arrested but Cap finds their signature in this new crime, staged as a figure of the tarot. Other murders come to confirm the hypothesis of Cap, who launches on the track of the killers.

In Miami, Jodie works in a newspaper eager for fresh events. Responsible for covering bizarre crimes, she is interested in a woman pierced by ten bayonets and realizes that it is the reproduction of a figure of the tarot. Jodie and Cap join to intercept the satanists, but if Jodie dreams of an article able to earn her the Pulitzer prize, Cap thinks only to destroy them to satisfy his revenge.

By the author of “The Dream of Broken Horses” who himself owns more than four hundred tarot decks, William Bayer, known for his superbly crafted thrillers, cleverly explores the world of tarot lovers. A magisterial dive into the half-animal, half-divine world of witchcraft.