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The Devil Aspect

By: Craig Russell
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
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How do you find a killer when you're surrounded by madness?

1935. As Europe prepares itself for a calamitous war, six homicidal lunatics - the so-called 'Devil's Six' - are confined in a remote castle asylum in rural Czechoslovakia. Each patient has their own dark story to tell and Dr Viktor Kosárek, a young psychiatrist using revolutionary techniques, is tasked with unlocking their murderous secrets.

At the same time, a terrifying killer known as 'Leather Apron' is butchering victims across Prague. Successfully eluding capture, it would seem his depraved crimes are committed by the Devil himself.

Maybe they are...and what links him with the insane inmates of the Castle of the Eagles?

Only the Devil knows. And it is up to Viktor to find out.

2019, The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Short-listed

©2019 Craig Russell (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK Crime Thrillers Historical Mystery Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime Scary Exciting Suspense War

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Critic reviews

"Deep, dark, and twisty...a gripping masterpiece of a thriller!" (Alex Grecian, New York Times best-selling author of The Yard)

"A superior thriller, at once stylish, absorbing and compulsive...a taut and chilling tale, expertly crafted...I was gripped from the very first page right up to that haunting denouement." (Laura Carlin, author of The Wicked Cometh)

"A Gothic masterpiece in psychological horror and creeping dread, The Devil Aspect is as disturbing as it is compelling. Be prepared to read it in one sitting - and to sleep with the lights on for a long time to come." (Neil Broadfoot, author of No Man's Land)
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A truly magnificent work of the imagination, I echo the praise of other Audiblers below.

As a former reader-aloud for Librivox.org, I would particularly like to commend the minute care that Julian Rhind-Tutt brings to his rendering of the text. Accurate rendition of foreign names and phrases is for me a litmus test of professionalism in a narrator. In The Devil Aspect, we are in pre-war Czechoslovakia, and Czech is a sparsely-vowelled challenge for an English-speaker. Rhind-Tutt has researched the pronunciation - not hard to do, given the resources of the internet - and triumphs over the difficulties. (The only mispronunciation I noticed in the whole performance was of the English word dissect - read as DIE-sect; but to be fair, 98% of British readers ignore the double-s.)

This is the first book by Craig Russell I have read/heard. I intend to work my way through the rest.

Jekyll & Hyde on the Magic Mountain

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This kept me in suspense from start to finish and now I have no idea what to read next. Highly recommended!

wow and more wow!

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I am a big Lennox fan and managed to pick up the Devil Aspect in a BOGOF deal.

I thought that the book started quite slowly but after a few hours i was pretty much hooked and the level of detail about the devil and the historic facts are outstanding.

Nice twist at the end

Its a grower

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I have to say I have been listening to books for over a decade now and this hands down is one of the best stories and narration I have ever listened too. Literally from the first few minutes I was hooked. Atmospheric, detailed, character building, just an absolute classic.

What a story what a twist

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A Great story brought to life by a great story teller, I thoroughly recommend the book.

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A very historical story about madness and its many afflictions. I like the twists and turns throughout. well read by the narrator... well done. Really puts you in the moment.

Quite a deep story to get into , but worth it.

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I’ve been with audible since 2010 and this is the best story I’ve listened to so far. For me, it was perfect. Brilliantly written, perfectly narrated. Dark, twisted and creepy AF! Genuinely terrifying in places, and wow! What an ending.

I’ve read/listened to all of Russell’s Lennox series and Jan Fabel series and loved them, particularly because they were read by Sean Barrett and I was disappointed that there weren’t any more from Russell read by Barrett, but I took a chance on this and I think Julian Rhynd-Tutt surpassed even Barrett’s talents in this one. He has the perfect voice for this story and drove the character development quite wonderfully, like the voice of a darkly twisted nightmare

I was listening to this one night with headphones as I drifted off to sleep. I awoke at some point in the night with the voice of Mr Hobbs in my ears and it scared the bejesus out of me! I’m fifty years old and have been reading roughly sixty to a hundred books a year for over a decade and this was the first time a book has ever genuinely put the frighteners on me! Couldn’t stop listening and didn’t want it to end

Bravo Messers Russell and Tutt. I cannot wait fir the next one from these two

Absolutely Brilliant

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Deeply dark and disturbing, superb historical thriller intertwined with central European folklore! My first read of a Craig Russell book and certainly not my last.

Intelligent dark thriller

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Great story and a great performance.
As always Russell has written a fantastic story. It’s a horror story this time but also a story about the period leading up to ww2 in Bohemia with the threatening horror from bordering Germany. The ending is sublime.

Magnific story

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This is one my top 3 reads of this year. Excellent story, characters, narration. Had me gripped from the get go and I didn’t want it to end. Highly recommend

Absolutely brilliant

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