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Als sie die Polizei informiert, ahnt Judith nicht, welche Lawine sie damit lostritt: Ein Ort, der Schicksale beschwor? Justitia scheint mehr als einmal versagt zu haben.
Jahre, nachdem sie alle ihre alte Schule verlassen haben? Nur wer hat eigentlich die Einladungen verschickt? Wie in ihren Bestsellerromanen so schreibt Elisabeth Herrmann auch hier: Anwalt Vernau erwacht im Krankenhaus und kann sich an nichts mehr erinnern. Aber wer ist die junge Frau mit dem Davidstern, die seitdem durch seine Erinnerung geistert?
In letzter Sekunde kann er das Land verlassen, sein Ziel: Als die ersten Schatzsucher auftauchen, die das Schiff mit seiner kostbaren Fracht nach so langer Zeit bergen wollen, ist es mit der Ruhe im idyllischen Friedrichskoog vorbei. Die Schuldige ist schnell gefasst - zu schnell, wie Sanela glaubt. Zweifel, die auch den Psychologen Jeremy Saaler plagen.
Bis ihn ein Hilferuf aus Polen erreicht: Sie leben in einer eigenen Welt und sind fasziniert von dunklen Ritualen. Rollenspiele sind doch harmlos, denkt Vernau. Showing results by author "Elisabeth Herrmann".
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The Murderer In Ruins, by Cay Rademacher translated by Peter Millar , is a fictionalised account of a series of murders that were perpetrated in Hamburg during the freezing winter of Following the devastation wreaked by the Second World War large swathes of the city were reduced to rubble Utilities and infrastructure were on the brink of collapse and the cold, hungry residents struggled to survive on subsistence rations Within this bleak landscape a murderer is at large who strangles The Murderer In Ruins, by Cay Rademacher translated by Peter Millar , is a fictionalised account of a series of murders that were perpetrated in Hamburg during the freezing winter of Following the devastation wreaked by the Second World War large swathes of the city were reduced to rubble Utilities and infrastructure were on the brink of collapse and the cold, hungry residents struggled to survive on subsistence rations Within this bleak landscape a murderer is at large who strangles and strips his victims, leaving their naked bodies in the ruins of the bombed out city Nobody knows who these people are or why they were selected The frozen corpses yield few clues.
Frank Stave, is the police officer assigned to investigate the murders He is required to work with two assistants Lothar Maschke from the vice squad, who volunteered to join the team and James MacDonald, a lieutenant in the British army, who was seconded by the Allied Administration as liaison officer With memories of their active roles in the recent conflict still so raw it is difficult for Frank to know who he can trust to investigate these current crimes within the fair remit of the law.
The prose is precise and, in many ways, as cold as the landscape in which the story is set, yet the humanity behind Frank s thorough investigations burns through This is a man struggling with personal tragedy in a city where every survivor harbours torrid memories The vivid portrayal of the horror that comes after the devastation of war is uncompromising. Frank is offered every assistance by his superiors but the challenging conditions and few clues leave him little to work with What he does uncover is a hidden war crime, a national secret, and a moral dilemma Sides must be chosen where the nebulous concepts of right and wrong have become blurred.
Brought to life within these pages are ordinary Germans I couldn t help but consider the parallels between the reasons why Hitler came to power and current attitudes in this country towards those who the media portrays as a threat to the comforts of the British people If only we could resist the urge to follow self indulgent leaders and learn from history.
The denouement tidies up the many threads unraveled by this tale The thaw in the weather feels as much of a relief to the reader as the conclusion of Frank s varied investigations. A fine work of crime fiction that is unusual in its detailed, historic setting and Germanic tones Well worth reading for the telling of the tale, and provides plenty on which to reflect.
My copy of this book was provided gratis by the publisher, Arcadia Books. An evocative police procedural set in the bleak post war years of Hamburg Although the translation is a little uneven at times it s a little heavy on the Americanisms, despite the central characters all being German or British , it does a fantastic job in creating a vivid sense of place and time.
During World War II, the northern port city of Hamburg was nearly destroyed by bombing and the horrific bombing induced firestorm of that killed tens of thousands After the war ended, it was tremendously difficult to rebuild and supply the city That process had barely begun in the winter of 47, which was brutally cold.
That winter, there was an infamous serial murderer at work in Hamburg, and his identity has never been found Those murders were called the rubble murders, because the During World War II, the northern port city of Hamburg was nearly destroyed by bombing and the horrific bombing induced firestorm of that killed tens of thousands After the war ended, it was tremendously difficult to rebuild and supply the city That process had barely begun in the winter of 47, which was brutally cold.
That winter, there was an infamous serial murderer at work in Hamburg, and his identity has never been found Those murders were called the rubble murders, because the victims bodies were left in the rubble of the destroyed buildings This novel fictionalizes that Hamburg winter, those murders and the police investigation.
The British occupation authorities reconstituted the Hamburg police by cleaning out Nazis as best they could, resulting in Social Democrat Frank Stave being a Chief Inspector as this novel begins Stave lives alone in a freezing apartment, next door to the bombed building where he lives with his wife and son His wife was killed in a bombing raid and his son, a Wehrmacht soldier, has not returned from the Eastern Front.