William Bayer je autorem devatenácti beletristických a naučných knih, z nichž třináct je nyní k dispozici v digitálních a audioknižních formátech a jeho díla byla přeložena do čtrnácti cizích jazyků. Jeho romány se vyznačují pronikavým pohledem na lidskou psychiku a složitost zločinu, často se ponořují do temnějších zákoutí městské krajiny. Bayer mistrně splétá napětí s hlubokým porozuměním motivací postav, což čtenářům nabízí podmanivý a myšlenkově provokativní zážitek. Jeho práce zkoumá témata viny, spravedlnosti a neustálého boje mezi dobrem a zlem.
Jason Poe, a former war photographer, has been breaking into abandoned houses for an art project. After climbing into a cramped attic he's confronted by a haunting set of murals. Transfixed, he determines to search for the artwork's meaning. As he and his friends investigate they uncover a mystery involving police corruption, scandal and much more.
1882: Lou Andreas-Salome appears with Friedrich Nietzche in a photograph. Thirty years later, a student presents Salome with his own drawing of the photograph. Present Day: Tess's life is put in jeopardy when the previous owner of her new Californian loft is found dead, and she uncovers a link to the Luzern photograph and the 1913 drawing.
Circling high over Rockefeller Center is a peregrine falcon, the most awesome of the flying predators. She awaits a signal from her falconer. It is given: the bird attacks, plummeting from the sky at nearly 200 miles an hour, striking a young woman and killing her instantly. So begins Peregrine, a chilling tale of obsession. By chance, newscaster Pamela Barrett witnesses the slaying. Her impassioned account of it on television that evening thrills the falconer, a brilliant madman who identifies with his deadly bird. He becomes fascinated with Pam and enmeshes her in a bizarre and deadly scheme even as she finds herself drawn to him by an erotic need she doesn't understand. As killing follows killing, the police and the media engage in cutthroat competition to find the murderer. Two falcons fight to the death above Central Park. Call girls, rich eccentrics, dealers in the black market for rare birds--all play their roles in this study of secret passion, desire, fulfillment, and ecstasy.
Geoffrey Barnett is a burned-out news photographer afraid to shoot a naked face. Kimberly Yates is a gorgeous young actress willing to bare her body. Soon after he learns to believe in the healing power of her love, she vanishes. Geoffrey's obsessive search for the woman he loves leads him from Manhattan's Soho to steamy, seedy Key West.
