The black inspector Stefan Moses and his assistant Katja Helwig are dealing with a particularly brutal murder in the crime thriller “Moses and the Cold Angel” by Ortwin Ramadan: The body of the young Jan Mattis was found in an attic in the middle of Hamburg was strangled. The murderer left a severed buttercup in his mouth. When his black fiancée Adanna Mamudu was murdered a short time later, the investigators saw a fire on the roof. But where do you start when the evidence is so sparse and one worked as a refugee supervisor and the other was an asylum seeker?
Exciting until the final
Moses struggles his way through only slowly. He always ends up at the club where Mattis worked and which offers medical help to refugees. Is the wealthy chairwoman Sylvia Solbek really only inspired by helpfulness and charity? And what role does the asylum officer Matthias Fleerkotte, who is addicted to games and amusement and who Solbek initially does not want to know, play?
With an entertaining mix of local Hamburg flavor, private details from Moses ?? Ortwin Ramadan (59) guides the life and criminal machinations of dark gangs through the third volume of his Moses series. The author, himself the son of an Egyptian father, uses the partly obscure past of his African main character Stefan Moses, who was adopted by a German family as a child, to build up tension.
Ramadan knows how to clear the criminalist fog around the murder case just so slowly that the detective’s feeling of disorientation becomes noticeable, but the tension remains. Even if the 320-page thriller seems clichéd and constructed in part – with Moses for example? Depiction as a lone wolf, who is at war with his feelings, or the tenderly burgeoning love for the main suspect – the novel remains exciting until the furious finale.
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