The Malachite Soul (collection)

A stranger’s soul is dark—and even your own is! What does a private detective know about his soul when, while searching for a missing businessman, he encounters the last representatives of the oldest race and finds himself facing a fatal dilemma? And what about a girl whose trip to a night club ends with her becoming a lure for dreadful otherworldly creatures caught on the hook of a mage—an amateur-sorcerer?

And a translator whose memory sometimes drops large chunks out of it, and only one melody keeps him from completely slipping out of reality. And a person whose work is such that supernatural beings are closer to him than people. After all, even they themselves don’t know how they will behave in a situation where the stakes are as high as they can possibly get…