The Ghosts of Altona - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780874936 ISBN 13: 9781780874937

Synopsis

Jan Fabel is a changed man. Head of the Polizei Hamburg's Murder Commission, Fabel has dealt with the dead for nearly two decades, but when a routine enquiry becomes a life-threatening - and life-altering - experience, he finds himself on much closer terms with death than ever before. Fabel's first case at the Murder Commission comes back to haunt him: Monika Krone's body is found at last, fifteen years after she went missing. Monika - ethereally beautiful, intelligent, cruel - was the centre of a group of students obsessed with the gothic. Fabel re-opens the case. What happened that night, when Monika left a party and disappeared into thin air? Meanwhile, Hamburg's most dangerous serial rapist has escaped from high-security prison. Fabel is convinced he had outside help, but from whom? His suspicions that the escape is connected to the discovery of Monika's body seem to lead to nothing when there are no sightings of the fugitive, but little can he imagine the real purpose for which this monster has been unleashed. When men involved with Monika start turning up dead, the crime scenes full of gothic symbolism, Fabel realizes he is looking for a killer with both a hunger for vengeance and a terrifying taste for the macabre. A true gothic demon is stalking the streets of Hamburg...

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Review:

The Ghosts Of Altona is a confidently unsettling crime novel that subverts expectations with a joyful intelligence. (The National)

In Jan Fabel Russell has created one of the better drawn versions of the thinking man with a badge (Shots Magazine)

He's (Jan Fabel's) become one of the most interesting detectives around; his seventh appearance is his best. (Marcel Berlins The Times)

This is an excellent read. (Literary Review)

Craig Russell writes intelligently and with sensitivity . . . The Ghosts of Altona is an absorbing above average crime thriller . . . absolutely not one to miss (SJ2B House of Books)

There are many layers to be had here and Craig Russell brings them all together over time in indomitable fashion - clever construction and a real feel for character development means this comes highly recommended from me. (Liz Loves Books)

Book Description:

Fabel is back: scarred by an experience that has changed him for ever and haunted by his past, he investigates the biggest case of his career

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 1780874936
• ISBN 13: 9781780874937
• Binding: Paperback