Inspector Bernsdorff

Eye for Eye

Eye for Eye

In a quiet town in the Taunus hills, north of Frankfurt, the widely known and much-loved parish priest Gregor Meyer meets a death of appalling brutality. He is found dead in the changing room of the local football club … murdered. And what shocks the residents even more: his killers have emasculated him. A castration. There can be no doubt that this is a crime heavy with symbolism.
Could this be a calculated act of revenge? Why did the Catholic clergyman have to die in such a cruel manner? Does the answer lie in his past? And where should the investigators begin to look for the perpetrator—or perpetrators? These are precisely the questions confronting Chief Inspector Katharina von Bernsdorff, head of the Homicide Task Force at Bad Homburg police, when she is summoned to the scene on a cold, fog-shrouded November morning.

A Taunus crime novel.