BOOK BLURB:
'The heavens are stained with the blood of men, As the Valkyries sing their song.' Njal's Saga Jan Fabel is a troubled man. His relationships with the women in his life are becoming increasingly complicated: his partner, Susanne, is looking for a deeper commitment. His daughter is considering joining the police and his ex-wife holds him responsible. If that weren't enough, after a gap of ten years, a female serial killer - the Angel of St Pauli - again makes the headlines when an English pop star is found in Hamburg's red-light district, dying of the most savage knife wounds. Links emerge with a series of apparently unrelated events. A journalist murdered in Norway. The death of a Serbian gangster. And a long-forgotten project by East Germany's Stasi conceived at the height of the Cold War, involving a highly-trained group of female assassins, known by the codename Valkyrie. Fabel's hunt for the truth will bring him up against the most terrifyingly efficient professional killer. The ultimate avenging angel. Fabel soon realizes the real danger he faces in hunting the Valkyrie ...That he might just catch up with her.
REVIEW:
As many people know I’m a huge fan of Craig Russell and his crime series set in Hamburg. The characters are fascinating and with each novel containing crimes that really do take a lot for the reader to figure out it’s the pure unpredictability on the life expectancy of the characters within that grip the reader to the last page. Methodology is key and with some of the most twisted tales to come out of a crime writers mind generously smothering the pages of his writing it makes his work a pure treat for me.
They’re unpredictable and you’ll be changing your mind as to who’s who throughout the novel and then flitting from one page to another just to check if your theories hold water. What is presented in Craig’s latest is a tale that I really couldn’t put down and ended up with me taking an unscheduled day off purely because of the late night I had reading this offering. There aren’t many authors who can do that to readers but I’m fairly sure that once you try Craig he’ll become a firm favourite on your list too.
Beautifully written, engrossing characters and a series that really is difficult to put down. Whilst you can read this novel as a stand alone you’ll be glad when you start from the original novel (Blood Eagle) just so you can get established with the characters and the twisted world of the Murder Investigation Squad, a real treat for holiday reading especially if your going to Hamburg. Great Stuff Craig.
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