His novels have been translated into Polish, German, Czech, Turkish and French. Both dealt with demonic and erotic horror themes. His first novel, Covenant, was a winner of the prestigious Bram Stoker Award, and his sixth, Night Where, was a finalist for the award. He is also the Bram Stoker Award- winning author of twelve novels, including his latest New Orleans occult thriller, Voodoo Heart and The House by The Cemetery, a novel that takes place at a real haunted cemetery – Bachelor's Grove – near where he grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago. John Everson is a former newspaper reporter, a staunch advocate for the culinary joys of the jalapeno and an unabashed fan of 1970s European horror, giallo and poliziotteschi cinema. Because when a dead canary is left as a bloody message on the keys of her piano, she knows her own life may be in deadly danger. Whoever it is, Eve knows she needs to figure it out. Von Klein himself, who seems very handy with a camera and has a secret locked room behind his office where the light always seems to be on after dark? But who would want the Songbirds dead? One of the other Songbirds, like Gianna, the snarky sax player who seems to hate everyone? Or Philip, the creepy building caretaker and occasional night watchman? Or could it be Prof. Her new boyfriend Richard insists that she could not be the killer. are hers! Could she have killed the girl while under the influence of whatever someone had slipped in her drink? The police and others at the Eyrie are suspicious the murders began when she arrived. Another picture is posted online of the victim in her final moments, and this time, Eve is sure the hands around the girl’s throat. When Eve is drugged and another Songbird murdered at a campus party, she suddenly finds herself on the list of suspects.
What does it mean? Eve soon finds herself taking the girl’s place as the enclave’s star pupil, in line for a coveted scholarship and a new member of the famed jazz combo, the Songbirds. When the star of the school’s piano program is strangled with a piano wire, the only clue to the killer is a grainy picture of the victim during her final moments, mouth wide and screaming, posted on the girl’s own Facebook account, alongside a classic music video. But that dream is soon to become a nightmare. Ernest Von Klein at The Eyrie, an exclusive music conservatory, it’s the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. When Eve Springer arrives in Belgium to study with the world famous Prof. A modern Giallo, Everson's homage to the stylish Italian mystery thrillers.
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