Glatz - Storm

A hundred years ago, Kladsko was a place where murder was rampant. How could it not, when even the angry Krakonoš joined in...

At the end of February 1923, a corpse hangs from the window of Vilém's lookout tower on the Prussian side of the Králický Sněžník ridge. The strange crime scene, looming over the entire region of Kladsko, and the drastic mutilation of the murdered wretch make it clear that the perpetrator took the crime as a warning. A political statement? Or perhaps a blatant mockery of the police, who are doing their best in a backwater corner of the Weimar Republic adjacent to the equally young Czechoslovakia? Because to make matters worse, the killer's note is soon found with a most fanciful signature. Are the law enforcement officers really supposed to believe that the spirit of the border mountains, Krakonoš - or more precisely, his far more terrifying German incarnation called Rübezahl - has jumped to this Sudeten outpost to settle his accounts?
Whether a prankster, a lunatic or a terrorist is behind the matter, it is certain that the local mortuary police will be sweating in the coming cold days. While the hyperinflation of that crisis year is still preparing a decisive attack on impoverished Germany, the corpses are already piling up like logs in the Rübezahl case and the secret services are already involved in the investigation. Although Chief Constable Franz Koschella is no longer the hothead he was in the early days of this modest corps, he has not ceased to be a man of the "old school", so he will also have to deal with the taming of pathologist Greta Fischer. The intrepid lady of considerable charm can contribute valuable insights to the mystery, but otherwise she would rather solve the mystery on her own. He probably has a reason because of his connection to one of the murdered men. In addition, it seems as if Franz's mentor, Captain Wilhelm Klein, is now on the opposite side and, given his wartime past, has become more involved than is appropriate for a military policeman...
The third part of the detective retroseries from the Claddagh borderlands of the 1920s sends the audience a tangle of surprises crowned with an avalanche. For know that Rübezahl has wrought a terrible vengeance and has not only one terrible face!