The promises of the gods. Grange J.-K.

Berlin, 1939. In the city, one after another, nightmarely mutilated female corpses are found. The investigation is entrusted with a secret police, but it is completely at a loss. It is only known that all those killed belonged to the highest society; Everyone visited a very refined closed women's club; And everyone shortly before his death dreamed of an ominous marble man - either a killer, or a mirage, or a ghost.

serial murders must be disclosed at all costs, failure is fraught with punishment up to an execution, and investigator Franz Bivin, and from hopelessness, who does not know how to disclose real crimes, but he knows how to get confessions from innocent people, combines efforts with two civilian psychiatrists. The searches of the killer will lead these three extremely winding paths: together with them, the reader will come to a dead end more than once and eventually find the truth in very terrible lands.

In his new novel “The Promises of the Gods”, the recognized master of the European detective, the owner of numerous The prestigious awards Jean-Cristophe Grange turn to the new genre of the historical thriller for himself-and it was hardly possible to find more suitable scenery. The victims and executioners who are standing each other, the all -pervasive paranoia and a solution that could not be dreamed of anyone in a terrible dream - Grange reveals all the horror of human nature, mutilated by unbearable circumstances.