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Four Heads Missing – A True Crime Thriller (vol. II)

Four bodies. Four dark secrets. One hunter.

London, 1888: The Metropolitan Police is recruiting more officers because of the dire situation in the ghettos, and new headquarters are being built. However, the building work is brought to a screeching halt after a gruesome discovery: a strange package in the newly built strongroom. Wrapped up inside is a hideously mutilated woman’s torso, but there’s no sign of her head. Is someone making a mockery of the police? 

The well-connected escort Irene Adams and the taciturn bodyguard William Berger investigate the case their own way and come up against a wall of silence. Soon afterwards another body is dredged out of the Thames, its head also missing. The hunt for a faceless phantom begins.

  • True crimes, researched down to the last detail and transformed into a compelling thriller by a criminal court judge: a must-read for fans of true crime and historical murder mysteries
  • For readers of Niklas Natt och Dag and Kerri Maniscalco
Genre: Fiction, Crime / Thriller / Suspense, Historical Fiction

Thorsten Schleif

Thorsten Schleif is both a book author and a judge. He has written several highly successful non-fiction books and a humorous crime series featuring Judge Siggi Buckmann.

336 pages, ISBN: 978-3-423-22154-2
First published 2026