Death by Notification

“If within forty-eight hours you find out why I abducted this woman, she will live. If not—she will die.” That message marks the beginning of a perverse game by a serial killer. He tortures his victims by starving them, drowning them in ink, and sealing them in concrete alive. Commissioner Sabina Nemeth of the Munich police, in despair, searches for any explanation, any motive. Together with her Dutch colleague, she manages to understand the pattern the killer follows: his inspiration for brutal crimes is an old children’s book! The worst part is that he hasn’t exhausted all his ideas yet…