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Snow White Must Die |
*On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are
summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving
underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to
a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.
On a September evening eleven years earlier,
two seventeen year old girls vanished from the village without a trace. In a trial based only on
circumstantial evidence, twenty year old Tobias Sartorius, Rita Cramer’s son, was sentenced to ten years in
prison. Bodenstein and Kirchhoff discover that Tobias, after serving his sentence, has now returned to his
home town. Did the attack on his mother have something to do with his return?
In the village, Pia and
Oliver encounter a wall of silence. When another young girl disappears, the events of the past seem to be
repeating themselves in a disastrous manner. The investigation turns into a race against time, because for
the villagers it is soon clear who the perpetrator is and this time they are determined to take matters into
their own hands.
An atmospheric, character-driven and suspenseful mystery set in a small town that
could be anywhere, dealing with issues of gossip, power, and keeping up appearances.
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Bad Wolf: A Novel |
She looked at herself in the mirror, touched her fingertips to the little red hood on her head,
and laughed. The dress was a real dirndl, with a short skirt and apron. Papa had plaited her hair into two braids,
and she really looked exactly like Little Red Riding Hood in her fairy-tale book.
He always brought
presents—it was a secret that she and Papa shared, because he never brought anything for the others. Only for her.
She was his favorite.
The door opened, and she uttered a frightened cry when she saw the wolf. But then she
had to laugh. It wasn’t a real wolf after all; it was only Papa, who had put on a costume. How lovely it was that
she was the only one to share this secret with Papa. Too bad she could never remember anything afterward.
On
a hot June day, the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washes up on a riverbank outside of Frankfurt. She has been
brutally murdered and shows signs of long-term abuse, but no one comes forward with any information as to her
identity. Even weeks later, the local police have not been able to find out who she is. Then a new case comes in: A
popular television host is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her own car. She survives, barely, and is
able to supply only vague hints to the police, having to do with her recent investigations into an organization
whose members are from the highest echelons of society, and the potential uncovering of a shocking history they’d
prefer to keep from the public eye.
As the two cases collide, Inspectors Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von
Bodenstein dig deep into the past and underneath the veneer of bourgeois society to come up against a terrible
secret that is about to impact their personal lives as well. It is almost too late for a person very close to Pia
before she and Oliver finally track down the big bad wolf. . . . |
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