Bestseller

Summer of Ashes (vol. II)

The dying has only just begun

Only a few months after the traumatic Crow Murders, Special Investigation Unit 4, led by Jakob Krogh and Mila Weiss, faces its toughest challenge yet, when a mysterious obituary leads them to two bodies, frozen solid in a close embrace, in the basement of an abandoned farmhouse. A message has been written in ashes: The dying has begun. In the brutal summer heat of the city, Jakob and Mila follow the trail of the ashes to a killer equally brilliant as insane, and who is several steps ahead of them. Not only that, but he seems to know their deepest, darkest secrets …

  • A mysterious message, a gruesome discovery, a deadly puzzle
  • Gripping, disturbing, spectacular: a new case for Jakob Krogh and Mila Weiss
  • For readers of Sebastian Fitzek, Harlan Coben and Arno Strobel – gory, dark, thrilling
Rights sold: Slovakia (Ikar)
Genre: Fiction, Crime / Thriller / Suspense
Benjamin Cors

Benjamin Cors is a political journalist and correspondent for a broadcasting station. He grew up as a Franco-German national and spent his childhood summers in Normandy.

432 pages, ISBN: 978-3-423-22098-9
First published 2025