Russell, Craig - 'The Valkyrie Song' (Signed First Ed., 2009)

Signed First Edition. Hutchinson, London 2009.

This is the fifth 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 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." (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 with a comment 'Deadlier than the male...' and date '22 I 08 I 09'

The dust jacket is in a fine condition and unclipped (price 18,99 GBP is intact). Dust jacket is now protected by a transparent archival sleeve.