The Carnival Master

Jan Fabel #4

by Craig Russell

Fans of Stuart MacBride, James Oswald and Ian Rankin will love this dangerously dark and utterly compelling thriller from the pen of prizewinning and bestselling author Craig Russell. You won't be able to put it down...'Absolutely loved it...The kind of thriller that made me wat to be a writer in the first place' - Christopher Brookmyre'Don't have any doubts just read. Craig Russell is an absolute master' -- ***** Reader review'Gripping and compelling' -- ***** Reader review'A gripping, clever and intelligently written crime novel' -- ***** Reader review'A truly superb thriller' -- ***** Reader review'A riveting read, full of complex twist and turns, a real page turner, you won't want to put down.' -- ***** Reader review*************************************************HE KNOWS WHAT HE'LL DO. AND THE POLICE KNOW WHEN HE'LL DO IT.The Cologne police know a woman is going to die. They know the day it will happen.And they're powerless to stop it.They call on an outside Jan Fabel, head of Hamburg's Murder Squad and Germany's leading authority on serial killers.Fabel is on the point of leaving the police for good, but Carnival in Cologne is a time when the world goes crazy, and he is drawn into the hunt for the Carnival Cannibal. What he doesn't know is that he is on a collision course with a crack special forces unit from Ukraine and a disturbed colleague with a score to settle.Fabel finds himself on a trail of betrayal and vengeance, violence and death. And once more he faces his greatest enemy. The true Master of the Carnival.

452 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

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Award-winning, best-selling and critically-acclaimed author. His novels have been published in twenty-five languages around the world. The movie rights to the Devil Aspect have been bought by Columbia Pictures. Biblical, his science-fiction novel, has been acquired by Imaginarium Studios/Sonar Entertainment, four Jan Fabel novels have been made into movies (in one of which Craig Russell makes a cameo appearance as a detective) for ARD, the German national broadcaster, and the Lennox series has been optioned for TV development.

Craig Russell:
• won the 2015 Crime Book of the Year (McIlvanney Prize) for 'The Ghosts of Altona', and is currently longlisted for the 2017 McIlvanney Prize for 'The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid', the latest in the Lennox series;
• was a finalist for the 2013 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger;
• was a finalist for the 2012 Crime Book of the Year (McIlvanney Prize);
• won the 2008 CWA Dagger in the Library for the Fabel series;
• was a finalist for the 2007 CWA Duncan Lawrie Golden Dagger;
• was a finalist for the 2007 SNCF Prix Polar in France;
• is the only non-German to be awarded the highly prestigious Polizeistern by the Polizei
Hamburg.

Official website: http://www.craigrussell.com
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Also writes under the pseudonym Christopher Galt