Russell, Craig - 'The Ghosts of Altona' (Signed First Ed., 2015)

Signed First Edition. Quercus, London 2015.

This is the seventh 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.

"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?

Meanwhile, Hamburg's most dangerous serial rapist has escaped from high-security prison. Fabel is convinced he had outside help, but from whom? His suspicions that the escape is connected to the discovery of Monika's body seem to lead to nothing when there are no sighting of the fugitive, but little can he imagine the real purpose for which this monster has been unleashed." (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.