Everything is the result of Cause and Effect. The Cause: In the early 1900s, a man is accused of murdering another man for killing a wolf. The accused man responds, "No, I did not murder a man who was about to kill a wolf, I killed a man who was about to murder a wolf... an entire family of them." The heinous climax of the ensuing trial sets the stage for The Effect manifesting itself some eighty years later in horrendously grisly murders throughout the Northeast. A parapsychologist and a cop, with the help of a handwritten log dating back to the time of the infamous trial, painstakingly unravel the mystery and in the process come to fully comprehend that "when you dance with the devil, you don't get to lead." "Staley doesn't know how to pull a punch and we're all the richer for it. Loki and Simba is a brilliant, brutal, and compassionate work. If this book doesn't get to you, I shall suspect your humanity." - Raymond Napolitano "A very provocative, cosmic murder mystery." - Raul Magana