Dark Dreams

The second Jana Matinova investigation set in Slovakia

Jana and Sofia were best friends in school. Sofia suffered a brutal crime at the hands of a Communist Party bigwig, whom Jana vowed to bring to justice someday. Jana is now a commander in the Slovak police force, and Sofia is a member of parliament, engaged in a scandalous affair with a married fellow MP. One day, Jana walks into her living room to find an enormous diamond dangling from the ceiling. Who has left her this gift, and what does it mean? The answer will lead her across Europe to the center of a deadly conspiracy in which Sophia has become hopelessly entangled.Praise for Dark Dreams

“Readers hungry for a fresh crime setting will be enormously satisfied with Michael Genelin’s Jana Matinova novels, based in Bratislava, Slovakia, a place relatively unknown to Westerners . . . The portrayal of life in post-Communist Slovakia is riveting.”
—USA Today

“The resourceful and prodigiously insightful Jana seems to have no flaws. It isn’t her feats of superheroism that give the story its chilly sense of reality; it’s her casual acceptance of the almost universal corruption of everyone who lives in her world.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“A gripping novel of psychological suspense with a truly original central character.”
—Globe and Mail (Toronto) Michael Genelin is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA Law School. He has served as a consultant for the US State Department and USAID in Central Europe, Africa, Asia, and Haiti, and he is the author of the Jana Matinova series.