Amanda M. Jansson Libri

A fast-paced, thrilling debut about grisly murders and the hunt for a serial killer through the eyes of two distinct narrators. Aleksander Volkov, a self-destructive gay forensic psychologist with a death instinct. Ryan Henderson, a young gay art student, fascinated with violence and murder. It's the late nineties, and the body of a brutally murdered young teacher troubles the Pittsburgh police. Soon after, two more bodies emerge. Is it just a macabre streak of bad luck or could there be a serial killer on the loose as Police Chief Williams suspects? Gay arrogant hunk and renowned forensic psychologist, Sasha Volkov-who had been involved with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer during his final years, is soon called in on the case and has to struggle with balancing his afflictions and the police expecting him to put an end to the number of bodies piling up. In the meanwhile, Volkov is stuck with young art student Ryan, whose fascination with violent crime scenes is surpassed only by his attraction to his newly found mentor. Will Volkov be able to spot the missing link and annihilate the murderer before he gets to him?

A ship glimpsed across the stars. A saint born of suffocating fear. A giant face in the dark. A girl in a floating city, dejectedly searching for symbols to match her grief. In I Saw Your Ship and Other Stories, Michael Le Baron’s prose and Amanda M. Jansson’s art present a tapestry of luminous, harrowing tales woven from memory, myth, and the deep architecture of longing. These stories span dying plateaus, monstrous woods, the fractures of romantic obsession, and dreamlike corridors of time, where the strange is intimate, and the sacred is terrifying. A silent youth ventures into cursed lands in search of knighthood. A woman survives the massacre of her people and walks the snow with her heart exposed. A monster speaks a lover’s words. A city remembers what it was never meant to see. A forgotten god leaves a trail of ivy through a sealed wall. Some of these figures are doomed. Some become something else. Each story stands alone, yet all are connected, part of the same broken cosmology, where echoes travel across worlds and nothing truly disappears. At the end of it all, a ship points toward infinity: silent, impossible, and remembered in dreams only by those who shouldn’t have survived.