Unholy Awakening
A Novel
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A woman's body has been found at the bottom of a well. The death wounds are startling: two small, round punctures to the jugular vein. . . .
Vampire fever is spreading throughout the countryside, and suspicions soon fall on the recently arrived Emma Rimmele. Investigator Hanno Stiffeniis must do everything he can to find the true culprit before the mob's hysteria reaches its breaking point and turns violent.
Set in a nineteenth-century world where people truly believed in vampires, Unholy Awakening pits rational, scientific detection against unhindered, violent superstition.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Gregorio's stellar fourth historical featuring Prussian magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis (after 2009's A Visible Darkness), Hanno and his wife are struggling to go on after an epidemic in their hometown of Lotingen claims the life of their infant son. When the body of seamstress Angela Enke turns up at the bottom of a well with two circular wounds in her neck, Hanno sets aside his grief to investigate. His efforts to interrogate the enigmatic Emma Rimmele, the victim's employer and a newcomer to the town, are derailed by his attraction to her. Meanwhile, the locals leap to the conclusion that a vampire is responsible for the murder, and that Angela herself will soon rise from her grave to prey on them. Once again, Gregorio (the pen name of Michael G. Jacob and Daniela De Gregorio) conjures up a pervasive atmosphere of fear and menace, while using the plot line to provide insights into the mind and heart of his complicated lead.
