A serial killer in the High Middle Ages. This historic novel is set in the 12th century at the time of cru-sades when the power of the church was only rivalled by those of the kings. Young Isenhart has been lucky, because – despite being only the son of a blacksmith – he gets an education and proves to be an unusually intelligent boy thirsty for knowledge. When his secret love Anna, the daughter of his master, is brutally murdered, his world is shattered. The alleged murderer is soon tried and executed. But when a couple of years later another murder is committed in the same style – the ribcage of the victim opened and the heart stolen – he and Konrad, Anna’s brother and his friend, set out to find the real murderer.
The young men have to use the forensic means of the 12th century in order to hunt down the murderer. His quest takes Isenhart to the faraway Iberian Peninsula into the Bazar of Knowledge of Toledo, where the free spirits of Orient and Occident exchange ideas. Then, in a dark vault Isenhart finds anatomical drawings of the human heart which have never been seen before.
Isenhart is what we would today call a “profiler” – only in Medieval times. His thirst for knowledge often collides with the general prohibition of free thought of his time. Opulent and epic, this page turner is a historic novel in the style of Ken Follett and Iny Lorentz. A stupendously thrilling novel set in a time when free spirits had to fight against thought control.
