Dominik Dán is once again walking the line between fiction and reality.
The third novel, Beast, is set just after the great changes, more precisely after the bloodless revolution and amnesty in 1990, after which many irredeemable criminals are set free. Some will take advantage of the fall of the Iron Curtain and leave the Republic. There is a trail of blood that stretches across half of Europe behind one of them, but it is coming home. A seasoned repeat offender leaves behind the brutally butchered and disgraced bodies of women, but no fingerprints. But a new method is coming to the aid of criminologists - DNA analysis.
The appeal of the audiobook is heightened by the changes in perspective, as we alternately follow the actions of the killer, the Voice that drives him to murder, and the detectives' efforts to catch the beast in human skin. The Beast predates Dan's first two novels, Ashes Will Settle All and Shameless Innocent, in time. Richard Krauz is a budding detective, we meet the ex-detective and future siskier Ivan Canis and at the end of the novel Jozef "Chosé" Fischer comes to the Homicide Department...