Solving puzzles can be murder when a PI and a crossword editor join forces to catch a killer in the first novel of Nero Blanc's fiendishly clever crossword mystery seriesPlayboy Thompson C. Briephs has just been found strangled in his bed. The police believe the Newcastle Herald crossword editor, a scion of a blue-blooded New England family, died from kinky sex gone wrong. But cop-turned–private investigator Rosco Polycrates thinks there's a six-letter word...

LIFE AFTER DEATH Kaito Ukei was destined for greatness in his new world, landing himself the role of a hero and defeating the evil sorceress alongside a band of noble adventurers. When he's double crossed, though, and brutally murdered by his former allies, something inside him snaps. Death brings Kaito neither peace nor salvation. Rather, it instills in him a singular desire-to squeeze the life out of his blasted betrayers in the cruellest manner possible...! The strange twist of fate tha...

Sights set on their next target, Kaito, Minnalis, and Shuria travel to the magical city of Karvanheim, where they find Minnalis’s traitorous childhood friends leading carefree lives. But soon, the partners in crime come across an obstacle not even Kaito could have foreseen—a merchant woman named Leone who was also summoned from Japan and remembers the world of Kaito’s first life. Still possessed of her morals, Leone attempts to interfere with the trio’s rampage of revenge… but there’s no s...

.In this, the first book in a new series on Traditional Satanism, Brother Nero, an outspoken advocate of the Devil and His ways for over 30 years, focuses on an area of Satanism that few other authors have discussed in detail: the day to day philosophy and lifestyles of those who sincerely worship the Devil. Many topics usually considered too controversial for print in a book such as this are dealt with in a straightforward, easy to understand manner. Some of the many subjects covered in t...

COME HELL OR HIGH WATERNow that Kaito Ukei’s been given another shot at life, he has set out on his journey to exact revenge on the party members who brutally murdered him. He walks this path of vengeance with the beastfolk girl Minnalis, inching toward the capital to carry out his plan. Their first stop along the way? The City of Learning, Elmia. There, he brushes shoulders with the band of adventurers who purged the place most precious to him...as well as the damned Eumis-the traitorous ...

The next target on Kaito’s quest for vengeance is Grond the merchant, a money-hungry villain who goes as far as murder to satisfy his greed. But when Kaito finally gets Grond in his clutches, he forces the corrupt magnate to make an impossible choice: Would he rather part with his money or his life?

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHEDAfter successfully coming back to the other world, Kaito happens upon Leticia, only to discover that she doesn’t recognize him. From there, he and his two newest accomplices, Mai and Yuuto, travel to the town of Zolkia and start climbing the ranks at the Adventurers Guild. Don’t think they’ve turned over a new leaf, however—it’s all in service of drawing the attention of their next targets: a prince of the beast lands named Leon and Leticia’s elder sister Lilia....

A DEVASTATING HOMECOMINGMetelia ambushes Kaito just after he completes his latest feat of vengeance, forcing him through a portal to his home of present-day Japan. Stripped of his memories, Kaito comes to terms with his tragic new reality—a world where almost everyone he knows is dead, having been sacrificed when he was summoned as a hero the first time, and the few survivors of the incident are being hunted by a group of conspiracy theorists. Even this fragile status quo is disrupted when...

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUNDAs Kaito plots his revenge against Eumis, he discovers that the spellcaster has bolstered her powers by selling her sister Shuria’s soul to a demon. Not one to let an opportunity to humiliate his foes go to waste, Kaito saves the girl from the brink of death and invites her to join him and Minnalis on their quest for vengeance. Now the stage is set for the three partners in crime to corner their common enemy and strip her of everything she holds dear in a spect...

Do you agree with the view that the current situation in the world is very bad, that we have negative tendencies on all important issues? And the media and politicians convince us that we live in the best of all possible systems, that it only seems to us that this civilization is rushing into the abyss. For the crises and problems that are constantly changing, they find explanations in "unexpected circumstances", "historical and natural processes", calling all those who logically conclude ...

Revenge. But a single word defines Kaito Ukei’s second chance at life. After being mercilessly betrayed and murdered by his so-called comrades, he goes back in time to the day he met the princess who ultimately double-crossed him. But killing her isn’t enough-he wants to revel in every second of her agony as he looks her in the eye and robs her of all she holds dear. Her debt is the first to be repaid, though it shall not be the last. And by the time he’s finished, he will bathe in the blo...

What if the smartest move isn’t to look like a genius—but to let the world call you a fool?In an era obsessed with “looking smart,” could being underestimated actually be your ultimate weapon?Welcome to Act Like a Fool, Think Like a Genius—the subversive, Machiavelli-inspired manual for anyone tired of playing by the rules in boardrooms, ballots, or everyday life. This bold, strategic guide flips conventional wisdom on its head, showing you how to t...