Zeige Ergebnisse von "Craig Russell"

Prag in den dreißiger Jahren. Viktor, ein junger Arzt, möchte die Welt verändern, indem er in einer Anstalt hilft, hochgefährliche Kriminelle zu heilen. Doch das Unternehmen steht unter keinem guten Stern. Noch bevor er den Zug besteigen kann, um seine neue Stelle als Mediziner anzutreten, schlägt ein Serienmörder wieder zu, der ganz Prag in Atem hält. Bald kommt Viktor ein düsterer Verdacht: Könnte es sein Studienfreund Filip sein, der all die Morde begangen hat? Eine alptraumhafte Reise beginnt.

Ein blutiges Ritual aus der Zeit der Wikinger. Ein Serienmörder, der Hamburg unsicher macht. Ein Roman, der den Hörer packt und nicht mehr loslässt...

Mysteriöse Verbrechen sorgen in Hamburg für Furcht und Schrecken, und nur eines scheint die Opfer miteinander zu verbinden: Bei allen finden sich Hinweise darauf, dass der Täter sich gezielt an den Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm orientiert.

Auf den Straßen tanzt das Volk, und das Einzige, was zählt, ist der Spaß an der Freud'. Doch Oberkommissar Benni Scholz hat andere Sorgen...

Im Hamburger Rotlichtviertel wird ein britischer Popstar tot aufgefunden, von Messerstichen zerfetzt. Hat der Engel von St. Pauli wieder zugeschlagen...

Sturmflut in Hamburg. Ein weiblicher Torso wird angeschwemmt. Ist es die verschwundene Geliebte eines Hamburgers Senators...

In Hamburg geht ein Serienkiller um, der seinen Opfern die Haare rot färbt...

1935. As Europe prepares itself for a calamitous war, six homicidal lunatics - the so-called 'Devil's Six' - are confined in a remote castle asylum in rural Czechoslovakia. Each patient has their own dark story to tell, and Dr Viktor Kosárek, a young psychiatrist using revolutionary techniques, is tasked with unlocking their murderous secrets. At the same time, a terrifying killer known as 'Leather Apron' is butchering victims across Prague. Successfully eluding capture, it would seem his depraved crimes are committed by the devil himself. 

"Sie haben den Akt gesehen, dessen ich fähig bin: meinen heiligen Akt. Nun ist es meine heilige Pflicht, meine Mission, fortzufahren, wie es Ihre Pflicht ist, mich zu finden, Herr Fabel...

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, 15 years after she went missing.

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; it is a city where the old Germany combines increasingly with the new, where gangs from Turkey and the Ukraine battle for supremacy.

Glasgow in the 1950s. Private investigator Lennox is keeping a low profile, enjoying a secret fling with the daughter of shady bookie and greyhound breeder MacFarlane. When MacFarlane is found bludgeoned to death, Lennox is a suspect. Luckily, he has a solid gold alibi: he was in bed with the victim’s daughter. Lennox is quickly drawn into hunting the killer, and it turns out MacFarlane was into some seriously dodgy stuff.

Lennox liked Quiet Tommy Quaid. Perhaps it's odd for a private detective to like - even admire - a career thief, but Quiet Tommy Quaid was the sort of man everyone liked. Amiable, easygoing, well dressed, with no vices to speak of - well, aside from his excessive drinking and womanising, but then, in 1950s Glasgow those were practically virtues. And besides, throughout his many exploits outside the law, Quiet Tommy never once used violence.

A Cologne detective asks Jan Fabel for his help in tracking down the Carnival Cannibal, a terrifying serial killer who kills at the start of the world-famous annual Carnival. Unknown to anyone, Fabel's deputy, Maria Klee, also heads for Cologne to hunt down a different, even more dangerous killer - one with whom she has a score to settle. Taras Buslenko, a Ukrainian special-forces commander, prepares his undercover unit for a "black" operation into Cologne.

Jan Fabel is a troubled man. His relationships with the women in his life are becoming increasingly complicated. If that weren’t bad 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 savage knife wounds.

Human remains are recovered from the bottom of the River Clyde. Not an unusual occurrence, but these have been sleeping the deep, dark sleep for eighteen years. Suddenly Glasgow’s underworld is buzzing with the news that the dredged up bones belong to Gentleman Joe Strachan, Glasgow’s most successful and ruthless armed robber.

It’s November 1956. The world is in turmoil, the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Uprising boiling away in the background. Lennox, though, has more immediate concerns, like getting his personal life and his business back on track. In a bid to stay out of trouble, he’s looking for more legitimate cases. Anything’s better than working for the Three Kings, the crime bosses who run Glasgow’s underworld. When a woman comes into his office and hires him

In this anthology, you'll find 17 tales of conflict and heroism, exploration and discovery, endurance and triumph. Flee the apocalypse of modern-day Earth, fly a fighter in the cold emptiness of deep space, and find new life on the distant shores of an alien world. You might even discover something about yourself as each author opens a window on the soul of mankind.