THE BLACK ROSE MURDERS
Three years ago, my sister vanished. This morning, they pulled her coat out of the Danube with another woman inside it.
Throat cut. Left hand missing. A bronze medallion stamped with a black rose sewn into the lining like a signature.
Then London found one. Then Paris. Then Berlin.
Four cities. Four dead women. Every single one of them wearing my sister's face.
I am August Völker once Vienna's finest detective, now a ghost who drinks too much and sleeps too little. I can lift a fingerprint from a teacup. I can read a bloodstain like a newspaper. But I cannot explain why someone has spent three years turning corpses into breadcrumbs that lead straight to my door.
Someone wants me to follow the trail. Someone else wants me dead before I reach the end of it.
And the worst part the part I'm only beginning to suspect is that my sister might still be alive.
That she has been alive the whole time.
That the man who took her has been waiting, very patiently, for me to come looking.
She was supposed to be dead. He made sure she wasn't.
A dark historical thriller set in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Secret societies. Early forensic science. A detective with everything to lose. Updates [daily/weekly].
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