Chapter Two
Walking off with severed heads, Konrad knew, tended to be a bid to attract attention.
The fact that he possessed a wealth of such macabre trivia occasionally depressed his spirits; such knowledge was ill-gotten and reviled; but setting that aside, it could also prove useful.
In this instance, for example. No one first decapitated somebody, then availed themselves of the head, only to throw the latter away, or dispose of it separately. What would be the point? If a killer went out of their way to walk off with their victim’s head, there was something they intended to do with it. Most of the time, the head was taken as a kind of trophy, probably destined for display. Konrad had once dispatched a killer who had no less than three such trophies kept in pride of place in his own
