The Minotaur's Head: An Eberhard Mock Investigation
By (Author) Marek Krajewski
Translated by Danusia Stok
Translated by Danusia Stok
Quercus Publishing
MacLehose Press
1st October 2013
1st August 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
891.8538
Paperback
304
Width 152mm, Height 203mm, Spine 22mm
221g
When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, even his notoriously robust stomach is turned. A young girl - and suspected spy - who arrived by train from France just days before, has been found dead in her hotel room, the flesh torn from her cheek by her assailant's teeth.
Ill at ease with the increasingly open integration of S.S., Gestapo and police, Mock is partially relieved to be assigned to liaise with officers in Lvov, Poland, where a series of similar crimes - as yet unsolved - cast a long shadow over the town.'Another of Krajewski's insightful burlesque thrillers, laden with a sense of time and place. A must for any fan of Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther' Peter Millar, The Times. * The Times *
Marek Krajewski was for many years a lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Wroclaw. His Eberhard Mock novels have enjoyed huge success in Europe, and have been rewarded with Poland's premier literary and crime prizes.
Danusia Stok is the author/editor of Kieslowski on Kieslowski and a translator of modern Polish literature.