A serial killer on the loose, a profiler with a bloody past of her own, crucified bodies in the dark ... follow them into a dark place ... inside their minds.When Detective von Galen, a member of a new founded EUROPOL department not entirely unlike the FBI's BAU, gets the case of a crucified woman in a forest near Wurzburg, she is well aware, what she has to deal with and that doesn't only include the serial killer but as well her own demons. Tatjana once was the only survivor of a murder series and every moment of her life is still imprinted by this experience. But she has to hang on, show the world a hard working intelligent detective. There is just no way, she can show what she feels or wants. Even less, the nearer she comes to the brain behind a murderous campaign of revenge. The hunt leads from Germany to the US, to England, Italy into the Iraq and back to England. But in the end, there are two recognitions, Tatjana has to Also monsters have resaons ... and cornered monsters bite.