Five
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ursula Archer ; translation, Jamie Lee Searle
Contributors: Searle, Jamie Lee, translator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781250037411; 9781250037428
Subjects: Women detectives; Mystery & Detective; Police Procedural; FICTION; Serial murder investigation; Florin Wenninger (Fictitious character); Fiction; Beatrice Kaspary (Fictitious character); Women Sleuths
Work titles: Funf
Description: "A woman's corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles of her feet. Detective inspector Beatrice Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map coordinates. These lead to a series of gruesome discoveries as she and her colleague Florin Wenninger embark on a bloody trail - a modern-day scavenger hunt using GPS navigation devices to locate hidden caches. The "owner" of these unofficial, unpublished geocaches is a highly calculating and elusive fiend who leaves his victims' body-parts sealed in plastic bags, complete with riddles that culminate in a five-stage plot. Kaspary herself becomes an unwilling pawn in the perpetrator's game of cat and mouse as she risks all to uncover the motives behind the murderer's actions. Five is definitely not a book for the faint-hearted, but it delivers great suspense, unexpected plot twists, and multi-dimensional characters"--
Notes: "First published in Germany in 2012 as Funf by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH"--Title page verso.