
A girls body lies posed on the pale sand of a Hamburg beach a message concealed in her h&. I have been underground & now it is time for me to return home... Jan Fabel of the Hamburg murder squad struggles to interpret the twisted imagery of a dark & brutal mind. Four days later a man & a woman are found deep in woodland their throats slashed deep & wide the names Hansel & Gretel in the same tiny obsessively neat writing rolled tight & pressed into their hands. As 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 our darkest most fundamental fears
- a predator who kills & then disappears into the shadows. He is a monster we all learned to fear in childhood.