With a Cold Hand

A Forensic Medical Thriller

  • Harte and authentic as never before: new true–crime suspense based on cases that are as unbelievable as they are true
  • Loved by hundreds of thousands: Dr Sabine Yao and her team rock forensic medicine
  • Over 3 million copies sold across all titles by Michael Tsokos

The New Bestseller Featuring Forensic Examiner Dr Sabine Yao


Sabine Yao must lend her forensic expertise to a special task force investigating the horse ripper of Lübars. The fear that the brutal perpetrator will sooner or later switch from animals to human beings is more than justified. Still unnoticed by anyone, an online–addicted man in a shabby one–room flat in Pankow plans to turn his barbaric fantasies into reality once more. On an adult website for men, he arranges a date for a deadly rendezvous. At the same time, body parts are found scattered across various locations in Berlin. Sabine Yao is forced to descend ever deeper into the dark realms of the human soul to fathom the labyrinthine abysses of a sick psyche ...

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 01.09.2025
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-56095-2
  • 352 Pages
  • Series: Die Sabine Yao-Reihe
  • Author: Prof. Dr. Michael Tsokos
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Prof. Dr. Michael Tsokos With a Cold Hand
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Prof. Dr. Michael Tsokos

Michael Tsokos, born in 1967, is a professor of Forensic Medicine and head of the State Institute for Legal and Social Medicine in Berlin. He is the best known German forensic scientist and regularly works as an expert in Germany and abroad, among others for the Federal Criminal Police, identifying the victims of terror attacks and mass disasters. He has written 26 books to date, all of them SPIEGEL bestsellers.  Follow Michael Tsokos on Instagram: @dr.tsokos