The novel “Seven Temples” is intriguing and exciting. The description of brutal murders and the gloomy atmosphere of medieval Prague refers the reader either to Gothic stories or to the existential prose of Franz Kafka. The author of this unusual book, Czech writer Milos Urban, masterfully manipulates our fear of the supernatural. The main character of the novel, a former police officer, finds himself drawn into the investigation of a series of brutal murders. The victims are people who are somehow involved in the destruction of Gothic cathedrals...