Kate Carlisle

Brooklyn teaches bookbinding at Bay Area Book Arts and the director is a horrendous host who lords it over her subordinates. But when Layla is found dead from a gunshot wound, Brooklyn is determined to investigate.

Brooklyn Wainwright is an antiquarian book surgeon. When Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn's former employer, is found lying in a pool of blood, he smiles as Brooklyn takes possession of his priceless - and supposedly cursed - copy of Goethe's Faust.