Ravn

A grieving cop goes on the hunt for a missing person-and is drawn into a serial killer's dark web-in this propulsive thriller from Denmark's King of Crime. Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt-better known as Ravn-is on leave from Copenhagen's special crime unit following the brutal murder of his wife. Wracked with guilt over her death, Ravn has withdrawn to a ramshackle houseboat with only his grumpy Old English Bulldog to keep him company. But his self-imposed exile ends when a friend asks him for help finding a young woman who disappeared without a trace a few years earlier. The investigation brings Ravn back to his former workplace and the underworld he'd hoped to leave behind. All evidence suggests the girl has been sold to the crime boss Slavros, who runs a network of brothels across Europe. When the trail leads to Stockholm, Ravn is pulled into the seedy underbelly of the Swedish capital. As he races to determine if the missing girl is still alive, his investigation is complicated by the presence of a sadistic murderer who displays his victims in the scrapyards of the city-and has his next target squarely in his sights. Fast-paced, moody, and atmospheric, Derailed is the first book in another exciting, international-bestselling series from Michael Katz Krefeld, award-winning author of the Inspector Cecilie Mars Thrillers.

The search for a missing person leads Ravn into the heart of a deadly conspiracy with deep historical roots in this thriller from Denmark's King of Crime. Suspended from his job, criminal investigator Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt lives a lonely, dissolute existence-until he crosses paths with a woman desperate for help locating her missing brother. Driven to embezzlement, the man has vanished without a trace on a visit to Berlin. Ravn's investigation takes a chilling turn when he uncovers a pattern of similar disappearances involving single men in the German capital. As the pieces of this puzzle start to fall into place, Ravn finds himself entangled in a web of darkness and deception that dates back to the era of the Stasi, the fearsome East German secret police. In a race against time to discover the fate of the missing men, Ravn unwittingly unleashes the horrors of the Communist past, putting himself and his client in grave peril. Will he find the answers he seeks, or will the shadows of history swallow him whole? From the award-winning author of Derailed and Darkness Calls, the electrifying second book of the Detective Ravn series is a tense, politically charged crime thriller in the Scandinavian tradition.

From Denmark's King of Crime: The search for a businessman's missing son leads a grief-stricken PI into a web of deceit, arson, and religious fanaticism. Freelance private detective Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt is attempting to move on with his life following the murder of his girlfriend. But when wealthy business mogul Ferdinand Mesmer enlists his help finding his son, Ravn reluctantly takes on what he thinks will be a straightforward missing person case. A decade ago, Jacob Mesmer founded the mysterious and scandal-scarred religious sect "God's Chosen." Now he's vanished without a trace. As Ravn digs deeper, he discovers the previous private eye assigned to the case has also disappeared. Following the clandestine trail of Jacob and his followers, Ravn tracks them to a secluded country house on the remote Danish island of Lolland. There he exposes a nightmarish secret from the shared past of Jacob and Ferdinand Mesmer, a deadly crime with ties to Denmark's business elite, and a final revelation so horrifying it threatens to unleash disastrous consequences upon them all. For this is no ordinary sect. It's a death cult. Award-winning author Michael Katz Krefeld's The Sect is a heart-stopping thriller in which the past haunts the present and the truth is a deadly weapon. Welcome back to the chilling world of Detective Ravn, where danger lurks in every shadow-and survival comes at a price.