Beasts

A team of detectives on the trail of a beast in the flesh

The brilliant detective novel The Beast is set after great social changes, more precisely after the Velvet Revolution and the subsequent amnesty in 1990, after which many irredeemable criminals are set free.

Some take advantage of the fall of the Iron Curtain and leave the Republic. One of them has a trail of blood across half of Europe, but it is coming home. A repeat offender leaves behind the butchered and abused bodies of women, but no fingerprints. But a new method of DNA analysis is coming to the rescue. The book is also made more attractive by the changes in narrative perspective, alternately following the killer's actions, the Voice that drives him to murder, and the detectives' efforts to catch the beast in the human body...