Russell, Craig - 'Brother Grimm - Murder is no Fairy Tale' (Signed First Ed., 2006)

Signed First Edition. Hutchinson, London 2006.

This is the second crime novel in the Jan Fabel series by Craig Russell.  In the novel, the protagonist is a Hamburg detective inspector named Jan Fabel. Russell has long had an interest in the German language, culture and people, so he decided to write the Fabel novels. In 2007, Russell was nominated for the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Golden Dagger Award.

"Jan Fabel of the Hamburg Murder Squad, struggles to interpret the twisted imagery of a dark and brutal mind. Four days later, a man and a woman are found deep in woodland, their throats slashed deep and wide, the names 'Hansel' and 'Gretel' in the same tiny, obsessively neat writing, rolled tight and pressed into their hands.

It becomes clear that each new crime is a grisly reference to folk stories collected almost two hundred years ago by the Brothers Grimm.

The hunt is on for a serial killer who is exploring the darkest, most fundamental fears hidden in ancient fairy tales. A predator who kills and then disappears into the shadows.

A monster we have all learned to fear in childhood." (from the front flap of the dust jacket)

Book is in a fine collectable condition and has mild dusting to the edges of the text block. Signed by the author on the title page. 

The dust jacket is in a fine condition and unclipped (price 12,99 GBP is intact). Dust jacket is now protected by a transparent archival sleeve.