Questa serie segue le indagini di un ambizioso detective della polizia di Amburgo, che si muove tra le complessità del suo doppio retaggio culturale. Ogni caso lo trascina più a fondo negli oscuri meandri della città e nel suo passato tormentato. I lettori apprezzeranno il mix di avvincenti elementi procedurali, profondità psicologica e il particolare sfondo culturale scozzese-tedesco.
Ad Amburgo vengono ritrovati i cadaveri di due donne in posizione "ad ali spiegate": come in un antico rituale vichingo, le costole sono aperte e sollevate, i polmoni estratti e disposti a forma di aquila. Un terzo omicidio fa sospettare a Jan Fabel, il commissario incaricato delle indagini, di non trovarsi davanti a un singolo individuo, ma a un gruppo ben organizzato di persone, gente potente con forti interessi politici ed economici.
A girl's body lies, posed, on the pale sand of a Hamburg beach, a message concealed in her hand. 'I have been underground, and now it is time for me to return home...' Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder squad, struggles to interpret the twisted imagery of a dark and brutal mind. Four days later, a man and a woman are found deep in woodland, their throats slashed deep and wide, the names 'Hansel' and 'Gretel', in the same, tiny, obsessively neat writing, rolled tight and pressed into their hands. It becomes clear that each new crime is a grisly reference to folk stories collected almost two hundred years ago by the Brothers Grimm.
Two high profile victims are found murdered within 24 hours of each other. Both men have been scalped. Jan Fabel and his murder team find themselves under pressure to track down the killer. But Fabel is caught in a web of intrigue, obsession and revenge that seemingly spans sixteen centuries. He must find the crucial link to solve these murders.
The Cologne police know a woman is going to die. They know the day it will happen. And they re powerless to stop it.They call on an outside expert: Jan Fabel, head of Hamburg s Murder Squad and Germany s leading authority on serial killers. Fab
'The heavens are stained with the blood of men,As the Valkyries sing their song.'Njal's SagaJan Fabel is a troubled man. His relationships with the women in his life are becoming increasingly complicated: his partner, Susanne, is looking
"Jan Fabel has returned to the Hamburg murder squad to track down a horrifying killer. Just as a major environmental summit is about to start in Hamburg, there is a massive storm hitting the city. After the flood waters recede, a headless torso is found washed up. At first Jan believes this may just be another victim of a serial rapist and murderer who is stalking his victims through social network websites, then dumps their bodies in waterways around the city. But he soon discovers that the situation is far more complex and even more sinister. Fabel's investigations lead him to a secretive environmental Doomsday cult called 'Pharos', the brainchild of a reclusive, crippled billionaire, Dominik Korn. Fabel finds his skills as a policeman are being tested to their limits as he is drawn into an unfamiliar, high-tech world of cyberspace, where anyone can be anybody or anything they want. Jan quickly figures out that he is no longer the hunter, but the hunted."--Publisher
The sixth outing in the Jan Fabel crime series by award-winning author Craig Russell
