Enter the mind of a madman in the stunning crime novel The Thunder of Nautilus. The story takes place in the sprawling Wiltshire countryside. Malcolm Macbeth is a psychopath. Incarcerated at age eighteen, he spends years as a patient in a psychiatric institution. Once released, he takes revenge by killing the prosecutor he holds responsible for his internment. After the murder, he meets a woman in a nightclub, who invites him for drinks back at her desolate farmhouse, where her accomplice is waiting. They overpower Malcolm and lock him up in the basement. Calling themselves "the disciples of Hades," they are Satanists and have their own version of dark rites planned that will sacrifice Malcolm. Not far from the farmhouse stands a manor house, whose owner is a former forensic psychiatrist who had been consulted in Malcolm's attempted murder case years ago. A cottage near the manor has been purchased by a gay interior decorator named Nigel who takes along a friend to spend some time in the quiet countryside. Their country visit doesn't turn out to be so quiet after all, as investigators discover events that the devil himself could not have conceived in a more hideous and gruesome fashion. Christa Ingrid Stempel grew up in Hamburg, Germany. A fan of gothic writers Daphne du Maurier, Emily Bronte and Mary Shelley, she believes the English countryside's grand houses, drafty castles, and fog-covered moors provide the perfect backdrop for mystery, murder, and dark thoughts. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/ChristaIngridStempel