Always at the top of the bestseller list for 27 years and 23 cases: Julia Durant is cult!
Fear is spreading in Frankfurt after a homeless man was beaten to death with a hammer. Has a notorious Frankfurt serial killer found a copycat here? The investigation proves extremely difficult for Detective Julia Durant and her team: there are no witnesses and hardly any usable leads. When a woman is murdered shortly afterwards, the cases seem to have nothing to do with each other, as the modus operandi is completely different. It is not until another hammer murder that Julia Durant begins to ponder. Then she is given an old city map on which Frankfurt is divided into eight by eight squares - like a chessboard! Each crime scene corresponds to a square. And the black queen's square is the police headquarters ...
"Courageous, clever and uncompromising: the young Durant already has everything her fans love about her." Book journal extra about Julia Durant. The young huntress
