Blood Eagle

"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 dance continues...'" "The same gruesome ritualistic method of killing. The same mocking tone in the emails. It all points to the same killer. 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 Fabel - 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 - a city of contrasts and shadows. A city where the old Germany combines increasingly with the new, where gangs from Turkey and the Ukraine battle for supremacy." "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?"--BOOK JACKET.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.