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Jan Fabel is a haunted 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-changing - experience, he finds himself on much closer terms with death than ever before. Two years later, 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? When men involved with Monika start turning up dead, Fabel realizes he is looking for a killer with both a hunger for revenge and a taste for the gothic. What he doesn't know is that someone has been aiding and grooming a deranged escapee as his own, personal tool for revenge. A truly gothic monster to be let loose on the world.
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Craig Russell is the author of the Jan Fabel thrillers set in contemporary Hamburg and the Lennox series set in 1950s Glasgow. He is the only non-German to have been awarded the Polizeistern (Police Star) by the Polizei Hamburg. He has been shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Golden Dagger, the French Prix Polar, the 2012 Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year and the 2013 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, and has won the CWA Dagger in the Library and the 2015 Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year
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Russell scores highly with his atmospheric portrayal of Hamburg and its dark river Elbe, as well as with the intelligence of his plots The Times Craig Russell is a great writer at the top of his game -- Peter James Russell remains one of the more intelligent and sophisticated proponents of the genre Herald 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
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- PublisherQuercus Publishing
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- ISBN 13 9781780874920
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