Promises of Gods
23 hrs. 19 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Jean-Christophe Grangé
Author
Jean-Christophe Grangé
Narrator
Sergey Gorbunov
Narrator
Sergey Gorbunov
Description
Berlin, 1939. In the city, horribly mutilated women’s corpses are discovered one after another. The investigation is assigned to the secret police, but they are completely at a loss. The only thing known is that all the victims belonged to high society; all of them visited a very refined, closed women’s club; and just shortly before their deaths, everyone dreamed of a sinister Marble Man—either a killer, or a mirage, or a ghost.
The serial murders must be solved at any cost; failure would mean punishment up to being shot. And from hopelessness, Investigator Franz Biewen—who can’t uncover real crimes, but can extract confessions from innocent people—joins forces with two civilian psychiatrists. The search for the murderer will lead these three onto an extremely winding path: together, the reader will more than once hit a dead end, and in the end will find the truth in very dreadful places.
In his new novel “Promises of the Gods,” the acclaimed master of the European detective genre, the holder of many prestigious awards, Jean-Christophe Grangé, turns to a genre new to him—historical thriller—and it’s hard to imagine an even more fitting backdrop for an unflinching investigator of evil. Victims and executioners who stand to one another, pervasive paranoia, and an explanation that nobody could have imagined even in a nightmare—Grangé lays bare the full horror of human nature, deformed by unbearable circumstances.
The serial murders must be solved at any cost; failure would mean punishment up to being shot. And from hopelessness, Investigator Franz Biewen—who can’t uncover real crimes, but can extract confessions from innocent people—joins forces with two civilian psychiatrists. The search for the murderer will lead these three onto an extremely winding path: together, the reader will more than once hit a dead end, and in the end will find the truth in very dreadful places.
In his new novel “Promises of the Gods,” the acclaimed master of the European detective genre, the holder of many prestigious awards, Jean-Christophe Grangé, turns to a genre new to him—historical thriller—and it’s hard to imagine an even more fitting backdrop for an unflinching investigator of evil. Victims and executioners who stand to one another, pervasive paranoia, and an explanation that nobody could have imagined even in a nightmare—Grangé lays bare the full horror of human nature, deformed by unbearable circumstances.
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