The message was sent to Kriminalhauptkommissar Fabel by email - 'Time is strange is it not? I write and you read and we share the same moment. Yet, as I write this, Herr Hauptkommissar you sleep and my next victim still lives. As you read it, she is already dead. Our drama continues . . . '
The first woman had her lungs ripped out. When the same gruesome ritualistic method was used again, it was clear that the same killer was responsible. But there is no precise evidence to link the two cases, except for the tantalising email.
In his first crime novel, Craig Russell introduces us to a new detective hero, Jan Febel-half Scottish, half-German - a man of conscience and imagination. Russell has also created a richly textured scenario where the City of Hamburg plays a central role - it is a city where the old Germany combines increasingly with the new, where gangs from Turkey and the Ukraine battle for supremacy.
'Blood Eagle' is a violently exciting thriller and Fabel's desperate attempt to solve the case before more victims are discovered, gradually uncovers layer upon layer of intrigue. How can he track a murderer who leaves no trail, whose victims seem purposefully random and whose motive reaches far beyond greed and lust, into the darkest recesses of
the human soul?
