The Fox and the Devil
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- Expected 10 Mar 2026
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- 14,99 €
Publisher Description
An obsession with a beautiful serial killer entangles a vampire hunter’s daughter in an immortal sapphic romance in this mesmerising new gothic fantasy from the bestselling author of Lucy Undying.
Anneke has a complicated relationship with her father, Abraham Van Helsing – doctor, scientist, and madman devoted to studying vampires – up until the night she comes home to find him murdered, with a surreally beautiful woman looming over his body.
It soon becomes clear that her father isn’t the only inexplicably dead body. So, obsessed with vengeance, and armed with the latest in forensic and investigatory techniques, Anneke puts together a team of detectives to catch her mysterious serial killer.
But, for reasons even she can’t explain, Anneke keeps some crucial evidence to herself: infuriatingly coy letters, addressed only to her, occasionally soaked in blood, and always signed Diavola. Devil. The obsession is mutual, and all the more dangerous for it.
And the closer Anneke gets to her devil, the less sense the world makes. Could her father have been right all along? Could Diavola be something even more deadly than a serial killer? Because as Anneke unearths more of Diavola’s tragic past, she suspects there’s still a heart somewhere in that undead body.
A heart that beats for Anneke alone.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With this decadently dark gothic romance, White (Lucy Undying) delivers another gripping pseudo-sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Anneke van Helsing is intent on avenging the death of her father, the famed vampire hunter, whom she hero-worshipped despite their distant relationship. She had caught a glimpse of a mysterious, immensely beautiful woman standing over his body and believes her to be his murderer. Now, with the help of three friends, trained detective Anneke strives to track down this woman, following a string of unusual and gruesome deaths across the continent. It's a pleasure to be immersed in late-19th-century Europe, even as the death and gore piles up, and it's delicious to witness Anneke and Diavola (the mystery woman's name, as revealed in the teasing letters she leaves for Anneke) draw ever closer together, pulled as much by lust as hate. Horror and romance lovers alike will find much to enjoy—as long as they have strong stomachs.
