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Du weißt, wann er kommt. Du weißt, wen er tötet. Aber aufhalten kannst du ihn nicht.
In der chinesischen Millionenstadt Chengdu treibt ein kaltblütiger Killer sein Unwesen, der vor 18 Jahren die Polizei schon einmal zum Narren gehalten hat. Er nennt sich selbst Eumenides und tötet Menschen, deren Verbrechen von der Polizei nicht geahndet wurden. Mittels Todesanzeigen kündigt er an, wen er ermordet, wann er zuschlägt und warum das Opfer sterben muss. Damit verhöhnt er die zu seiner Verhaftung einberufene Sondereinsatzgruppe 18/4 und den brillanten Hauptmann Pei Tao. Bei jedem Mord ist Eumenides ihnen einen Schritt voraus. Zu spät erkennt Pei Tao, dass auch seine Geheimnisse und Vergehen vor dem Killer nicht sicher sind. Ein tödliches Katz-und-Maus-Spiel beginnt ...
About the author
Zhou Haohui was born in 1977 and lives in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. His Death Notice trilogy is China's bestselling crime series. An online TV drama based on the novels has received more than 2.4 billion views, making it one of China's most popular online shows ever.Zac Haluza is the translator of the Death Notice series. He began his translation career in 2014, when his translation of Shooting the Bull won third place in the English category of that year's China International Translation Contest. His other published translations include Never Give Up on Yourself and a short story by Hugo-Award-winning sci-fi author Liu Cixin.
Summary
'Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice. This extraordinary novel is the first in a trilogy, and it is already China's bestselling crime series to date' Sunday Times
THE LAW IS WEAK
For nearly two decades an unsolved double homicide has haunted Sergeant Zheng Haoming of the Chengdu Police Department.
I OFFER REAL JUSTICE
Now it looks as if the long-dormant killer has resurfaced, taunting law enforcement with 'death notices' proclaiming their next victim and the date of 'execution'. Perhaps modern police techniques – criminal profiling, online surveillance, SWAT teams – can catch a killer who previously evaded justice? Or perhaps this killer is more than a match for the Chengdu Police Department.
ONE SENTENCE: DEATH
Death Notice is the first book in the Chinese crime series phenomenon: a high-octane, high-concept cat-and-mouse thriller that adds an exhilarating new gear to the police procedural. The second book in the series,
Fate is out in
December 2020.
Reviews for Death Notice:
'Fiendishly inventive'
Wall Street Journal'Extraordinary'
Sunday Times'A perfect cat-and-mouse killer'
Book Riot'A compulsive and particularly ingenious read and a first-class mystery'
Crime Time
Foreword
Based on China's most famous online crime serial, a killer crowd-sources his victims, playing a deadly but ingenious game of cat-and-mouse with the police.
Additional text
If foreign and complex are qualities you seek in crime writing, you'll be delighted to have a crack at solving this one before the Chengdu Police Dept slap the bracelets on' Strong Words.
Report
Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice. This extraordinary novel is the first in a trilogy... It's such a gripping story that an online TV series based on the novels has had more than 2.4 billion views' Sunday Times
