Engel des Todes: Ein Krimi-Thriller Deutsch (Kriminalinspektor Sheehan Mysteries 1)

by Brian O'Hare

»Ein unglaublich fesselnder Pageturner.« ★★★★★


Kriminalhauptkommissar Jim Sheehan hat der Belfaster Sonderkommission für Gewaltverbrechen alles geopfert – schlaflose Nächte, eine Ehe mit seinem Beruf und die unerbittliche Jagd auf Mörder, die durch die Schatten gleiten.

Jetzt hält ein schauriger Kriminalfall Nordirland in eine Reihe brutaler Morde, inszeniert mit unheimlichen biblischen Hinweisen.

Die Vergangenheit jedes Opfers verbirgt eine Verbindung, doch im Belfast nach dem Nordirlandkonflikt sitzen die Traumata tief und jeder hat seine Geheimnisse.

Während Sheehan einen gerissenen Jäger verfolgt, der ihm immer einen Schritt voraus ist, führen ihn die Ermittlungen in Ecken der Stadt, die er hinter sich gelassen glaubte – und direkt zu Margaret, einer fesselnden Witwe, die Erinnerungen an das Leben weckt, das er nie geführt hat.

Während sich Loyalitäten wie Schatten verschieben und die Zahl der Opfer steigt, muss Sheehan ein Netz aus Gewalt und Täuschung entwirren, bevor das nächste Opfer stirbt … und bevor die gefährliche Anziehungskraft seines eigenen verschlossenen Herzens ihn alles kostet.


Ursprünglich bei Crimson Cloak als »The Doom Murders« veröffentlicht, ist »Todesengel« Band 1 der preisgekrönten Serie »Die Inspector-Sheehan-Krimis« und wurde mit drei Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet.


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★★★★★ »O'Hare ist ein Meister des Genres.«

★★★★★ »Eine fesselnde und zum Nachdenken anregende Lektüre.«

★★★★★ »Ein großartiger Kriminalthriller und eine packende Lektüre.«

★★★★★ »Ein gut geschriebenes und ungewöhnlich tiefgründiges Beispiel dieses Genres.«

★★★★★ »Kriminalhauptkommissar Jim Sheehan wird so geschickt und mit solcher Authentizität gezeichnet, dass man ihn förmlich atmen spürt.« – Eugene Fournier, Roman- und Drehbuchautor, Film und Fernsehen

★★★★★ »O’Hare konzentriert sich auf die menschliche Seite seiner Charaktere und verleiht ihnen eine lebensnahe Präsenz, die abwechselnd witzig und leidenschaftlich ist.« – Roy T. James, für Readers’ Favourite

404 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 28, 2025

About the author

Brian O'Hare, MA, Ph.D., is a retired assistant director of a large regional college of further and higher education. Married, three children, ten grandchildren, one great grandchild. He plays golf three times a week off a ten handicap and does a lot of voluntary work. Any writing he has previously done was academic...very much restricted to a very specific readership. Several articles in educational journals were followed by a number of book-length reports for the Dept. of Education and the University of Ulster.

He has also written an interesting biography of a man who daily performs amazing miracles of healing...The Miracle Ship. That is currently available in Amazon's Kindle bookstore. Hopefully those who read it will spread the word and write reviews to help John's message to reach the hearts of many, many people. The Miracle Ship has won top medallist honours in the New Apple 2015 Awards for literary excellence.

Brian had a liver disease since childhood which resulted in him taking early retirement a number of years ago. In 2002 he had a liver transplant but is strong and healthy now. He continued to do academic writing well into his retirement and followed that with a memoir about his liver transplant, dealing with the physical, emotional and spiritual experiences that came from that period in his life (A Spiritual Odyssey, published by Columba Press, Dublin).

Recently he experienced a desire to write fiction. Hence Fallen Men. It is a story about three priests...but it is religious in much the same way Thornbirds was religious. Fallen Men has won two awards, including top medallist honours in the contemporary fiction category of the 2015 New Apple Awards.

He has also finished two further novels, both part of a new series commissioned by Crimson Cloak publishing, The Inspector Sheehan Mysteries.. The first is a murder mystery inspired by an old 14th century painting of the Last Judgement. It's called "The Doom Murders", and it is available on Kindle and in print. The Doom Murders has to date won three prestigious awards.

The second book in the series, "The 11.05 Killings", has now been written. Obviously it features the same detectives as in The Doom Murders but since it was published only a few weeks ago it has not yet had time to collect any awards. The third book in the series, The Coven Murders, is currently being written.

To launch the print version of The Doom Murders, CCP asked Brian to write a couple of short stories, featuring Inspector Sheehan. These were originally intended to be Facebook games (i.e. a kind of 'see the clues, guess the killer' thing) but the publisher liked them so much that she has started a new line called Crimson Shorts. Brian's two shorts ( a third was written to launch The 11.05 Killings) Murder at Loftus House and Murder at the Roadside Cafe are now available on Amazon in Kindle and print versions. So, too, is the third, Murder at the Wooodlands Care Home.

Also now available on Kindle (as well as print) is the story of Brian's liver transplant and the growth in spirit he experienced as he waited for almost a year, not knowing if he was going to live or die. See: "A Spiritual Odyssey [Diary of an Ordinary Catholic]"