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Soccer Killer: A Soccer Crime Thriller of Murder, Match Fixing, and Corruption
Paperback
Series: The Sports Killer
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 9 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The goalkeeper refused to fix the match.
Three weeks later, he was dead.
Pavle Doric is a professional goalkeeper who refuses to participate in a match-fixing scheme. He knows the request is corrupt, dangerous, and illegal. But saying no comes with a price.
Someone kills him.
Detective Inspector Anke Rusev takes the case, expecting a difficult murder investigation. What she finds instead is a trail leading deep into the world of professional soccer, where money, betting, corruption, and organized crime have become impossible to separate.
The evidence doesn't point to an outsider.
Someone inside the club is hiding something.
Access records have been altered. People are lying. And Doric's final days suggest that his death was not random.
Then team captain Draven Kaspar starts asking questions.
Kaspar discovers that Doric had been pressured to influence matches. Before he can expose what he knows, someone tries to silence him too.
He survives.
Now Anke realizes she isn't investigating one murder.
She is uncovering a match-fixing operation that may have been running for years.
Rusan Belev, the club's sporting director, knows more than he admits. Ilya Marek, a quiet records clerk, is connected to the conspiracy in ways that Anke cannot initially understand. And behind them stands Anton Draz, a powerful criminal figure whose influence reaches far beyond one football club.
Matches have been manipulated.
Players have been pressured.
Officials have been compromised.
Betting money has been moved through hidden channels.
And anyone who threatens the operation becomes a liability.
As Anke follows the evidence, the investigation expands from a single murder into a much larger criminal conspiracy involving professional soccer, illegal betting, money laundering, organized crime, and corruption.
But bringing the truth to light will not be easy.
The people protecting the operation have spent years making sure nobody talks. They have money, connections, and enough influence to make evidence disappear.
And they are willing to kill again.
What begins as the murder of a goalkeeper becomes a dangerous race to expose an entire system before it destroys everyone who gets too close.
SOCCER KILLER is a gripping soccer crime thriller combining murder, match fixing, police investigation, organized crime, illegal betting, corruption, and suspense.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
- Soccer and football crime thrillers
- Sports murder mysteries
- Detective and police investigations
- Match-fixing conspiracies
- Illegal betting and gambling syndicates
- Organized crime thrillers
- Corruption inside professional sports
- Suspenseful mysteries with multiple suspects
- Stories where money, sport, and crime collide
If you enjoy stories about the darker side of professional football, or books such as The Fix by Declan Hill and football crime fiction such as Fatal Fix by Graham Morse, SOCCER KILLER offers a fictional journey into a world where the final score can be worth far more than three points.
The goalkeeper refused to cooperate.
He paid with his life.
Now Detective Anke Rusev has to find out who wanted him dead, who is protecting the people responsible, and how far the conspiracy really goes.
Because the match was only the beginning.
SOCCER KILLER is Book Two of The Sports Killer Series, a series of standalone crime thrillers exploring the darker side of competitive sports, where ambition, money, corruption, and violence collide.
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