Talking with Crows

by Robert C. Davis

Brutal crime scenes forced the most seasoned detectives to look away. Slaughtered bodies left behind by a killer nicknamed Casper. He loves his work, hones his skills, and taunts lead detectives Bobby Petty of Atlanta and Frank Reid of New Orleans who works tirelessly with scant clues to develop a theory connecting the dots.
Together the detectives initiate a Federal Task Force to track down the vicious killer. Casper draws great pleasure from the pain and suffering of his victims and from the money he drains by hacking into the victim’s bank accounts.
When the detectives get too close, Casper changes the game by kidnapping one of their own and the brutality is now up close and personal. It is only a matter of time before the chase has to end, but just who is chasing who?

369 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2019

About the author

Robert C. Davis is professor emeritus of Italian Renaissance and pre-modern Mediterranean history at Ohio State University. He has studied Naples, Rome, Palermo, Venice, the Vatican, and Perugia, and mostly works on the lives of ordinary people and the values they cherished. His subjects have ranged from shipbuilders, bull fighters, and amateur boxers in Venice to the corsairs who terrorized the Mediterranean everywhere else. He has co-authored studies of Venice as the world's most touristed city and of Renaissance men and women. He has also been in a number of television documentaries, on shipbuilding, Carnival, and the Mediterranean slave trade, and is currently writing a textbook on the history of modern Europe.