Lefortune Announces The Year of the Dead Count by Agustin V. Startari

Lefortune Publishing is pleased to announce the release of The Year of the Dead Count by Agustin V. Startari, a new novel built around a stark premise: a count has been murdered, and a city holds its breath.

From its first image, the book places death beside power. A bloodied noble emblem lies on the stone floor while the surrounding world seems to wait for the consequences. The murder is not presented as an isolated crime. It is the event around which fear, suspicion, authority, and memory begin to gather.

A Murder That Changes the Atmosphere of a City

The Year of the Dead Count begins with the kind of death that cannot remain private. When a count is killed, the question is not only who committed the murder. The death immediately touches hierarchy, reputation, loyalty, and the fragile balance that allows a city to believe it understands itself.

The book is designed around that pressure: the narrowing space between what people know, what they fear, what they conceal, and what power requires them to say aloud. The result is a story driven not simply by the search for an answer, but by the consequences of asking the wrong question in the wrong room.

A Darker Side of Historical Storytelling

Startari approaches the world of the novel through institutions, social rank, ritual, violence, and the psychology of people living inside systems larger than themselves. The murder at the center of The Year of the Dead Count becomes a way of examining how order reacts when one of its most visible figures is suddenly removed.

The atmosphere is intentionally severe. Stone, candlelight, blood, ceremony, and silence are not decorative details; they establish a world in which appearances matter, status has weight, and every act of interpretation carries risk.

About Agustin V. Startari

Agustin V. Startari is a linguist, author, and researcher whose work moves across language, history, institutions, power, and the structures through which people make sense of the world. The Year of the Dead Count brings those concerns into fiction, where political and social structures are experienced through uncertainty, fear, judgment, and consequence.

The Year of the Dead Count

A count has been murdered. A city holds its breath.

The Year of the Dead Count is now part of the Lefortune Publishing catalogue. Further availability and edition information will be announced through Lefortune Publishing.