Devil Aspect

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"A novel set in Czechoslovakia in 1935, in which a brilliant young psychiatrist takes his new post at an asylum for the criminally insane that houses only six inmates--the country's most depraved murderers--while, in Prague, a detective struggles to understand a brutal serial killer who has spread fear through the city, and who may have ties to the asylum"-- Czechoslovakia, 1935. Viktor Kosa rek, a young psychiatrist, takes his new post at Hrad Orlu Asylum. The mountain-top asylum for the criminally insane houses only six inmates-- the country's most depraved murderers. Meanwhile, in Prague, police investigator Luka s Smola k struggles to understand a brutal serial killer known as "Leather Apron" who has spread fear through the city... and who may have ties to the asylum. -- adapted from jacket