Blood Eagle

by Craig Russell

Book Overview

Fans of Stuart MacBride, James Oswald and Ian Rankin will love this violently exciting and spine-tingling thriller from bestselling and prizewinning author Craig Russell.'Gritty, authentic and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091800145
• ISBN13: 9780091800147
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

not a masterpiece, but definitely good

I wont give a resume of the story seeing you can easily find that elsewhere. The book is beautifully and intelligently written in a plain yet very poetic language. You get a feeling of getting to know the characters well and sympathize with/despise them as you go along. The author has a good eye to detail and nothing seems immediately as being "far fetched" or just wrong, as it so often does in crime novels. No illogic course of action or almost magical lucky coincidences. I do agree with the reviewer stating, that the German language bits could have been omitted, although I do understand why he put them in there. It gives a certain authenticity to the story as it is set in Germany. However this is not a major dsiturbance. Just a thought. The book dosen't start out slow. We are just taken along the inspector as he and his crew discover more and more in their search for the mad killer. There is a lot of material that dosen't lead anywhere immediately, but it dosen't slow the story down. It only gives the novel many delightful twists and turns and makes sure the reader always stays alert. The ending, however is way to short and simple. The buildup is very very good, but the ending is unsatisfying. There are too many unaswered questions and loose ends. At least two or three chapters are missing. In the end though, it is a very enjoyable book and I would recommend to everybody. Well done.

From the back cover...

Two women are killed in the same horrific, ritualistic manner. The murderer taunts the police with e-mails. It seems clear that a serial killer is at work, selecting victims at random and living out some twisted fantasy. But, as Jan Fabel and his murder team investigate further, nothing is as it first seems. They are drawn into a dark half-world of Viking myth and legend, of obscure religious cults, of political intrigue and of a violent struggle to seize control of the city. And as Fabel desperately races to track down the killer before more killings take place, he and his team come face-to-face with a cold, brutal menace they could never have predicted. A greater evil than they could ever have imagined.