The Shadow Dialectic

<p>From the underground shadows of Germany's Sparrenburg Castle near the city of Bielefeld a young woman narrowly escaped a terrifying assault. Her forehead is the canvas for a grotesque symbol; her words are a chilling whisper of coming horrors. The bizarre case falls to the sharp pragmatic Detective Sonja Weber. She finds an unlikely ally in William Blake a retired British military officer with a background in physics. They soon realize this was no random act of violence. The hunt is on for a cold calculating perpetrator driven by an obsession with a dark ritual one they are desperate to complete. (50000 words 5 Illustrations).</p><p></p><p><strong><em>A</em> gripping fusion of crime and mystery where survival hinges on unravelling secrets buried in both mind and history.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>A retired military officer and a relentless detective join forces in a race against time where every clue leads deeper into a web of psychological manipulation and occult fantasies.</strong></p>