a magical Maniac is loose in Alanda. The victims are always women, always lower class, and the weapon is always a three-sided stiletto, most often found among Church regalia. but the killers are never churchmen, and they always commit suicide immediately after the bloody deed. Tal rufen it's just a simple Constable. but he really cares about his job, and when one of these murder/suicides happens on his beat, he becomes obsessed. his superiors don't care- the victims will never be missed, and their murderers are already justly dead. but every instinct Tal rufen has cries out that he has seen only one small piece of a bigger and much nastier puzzle...