The small crook, the Cologne Italian, the vain gallery owner – in Frank Schätzing's new short crime stories "No Fear," types and characters take center stage. Surrounding them are absurd, macabre, but also humorous tales from the shadowy world. Frank Schätzing, who has already made a name for himself as a crime author with his novels, this time prefers the classic genre of short stories. He serves up characters and perpetrators, murders and scams in small bites. The fight against the mafia, the duel for a woman, ritual murder, late revenge – the motives are as varied as the settings from Cologne's underworld and upper world. The strength of the fourteen stories lies in their punchy structure. Schätzing reveals himself as a lover of language and demonstrates that he also masterfully handles the short form of criminal storytelling.