Blood of Dreams

Download or read book Blood of Dreams written by Susan Parisi and published by Viking. This book was released on 2007 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a world of seduction, fantasy and betrayal . . . Venice, 1762. As Carnevale bursts across the city revellers take to the streets in masks and lavish costumes to lose themselves in pleasure. Yet while Venetians celebrate, a nightmare is about to unfold . . . Laudomia Codussi, a beautiful young woman tormented by terrifying visions, takes a lover and is drawn into his dangerous obsession with opium. When a series of gruesome murders is revealed, Laudomia embarks on an urgent quest to unmask the killer. Until she can separate reality from fantasy, no one is safe - least of all herself. But in a city transformed by illusion, who can say what is real and what is not? in the tradition of Anne Rice and Patrick Suskind, Blood of Dreams is a lush and intoxicating odyssey through the grand palaces, decadent salons and sinister alleyways of eighteenth-century Venice - a journey from which no one will emerge unscathed. Winner of the 2008 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel.