This book is the first one in a new series by Potzsch. It takes place in Vienna in the late 1800's. The gravedigger works in a very large cemetary on the edge of town. Early in the book we hear about a man who was buried before he was dead. Several women are found in Prater Park who have been killed and then had sharpened stakes thrust up their vaginas. There is fear of Vampires in the town. There is also a group of men who wear masks and have orgies with naked women and young girls only wearing a mask. The other main character, Leo, is a young police man who has recently arrived in Vienna from Graz. The other police are not very welcoming to him, but he gets along well with the Gravedigger, who explains about the man buried alive, and then takes care of a young child who had been raped after here mother had been killed. Although Leo is trying hard to solve cases, the bosses don't seem to want him to work on the big cases. Leo soon becomes friends with Julia Wolf who is a secretary, and she becomes very helpful to him. Some of the members of the police may not be the people they seem to be. Will Leo manage to find out what is happening and who is honest and who not before he is also killed?

This book becomes very exciting! I thank Netgalley and HarperVia for the ARC so that I could read the book before publication.