About the book: year / In Hemlock Grove, the Gotfrey family is almost a city-forming family, and its young representative - Roman - is a spoiled and attractive young man with strange and sometimes frightening inclinations. Peter Rumancek is a young gypsy who recently arrived in this town and immediately became the object of rumors. Suddenly the city is shaken by a tragedy - a corpse, or rather part of it, of a young girl, torn to pieces by an unknown beast, is found. Both Peter and Roman want to find the killer and team up to investigate. Soon this union develops into a strange friendship, and the young people learn that the city in which they live is not as simple as it seems.