Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. Food is scarce; refugees and the homeless crowd into shanty towns and sheds. There is a killer on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed. Plagued with worry about his missing son, Frank Stave is a career policeman with a tragedy in his past that is driving his determination to find the killer. With the help of his colleague Maschke from the vice squad, and Lt MacDonald from the British military, Stave has to find out why and who - in the wake of a wave of atrocity, the grim Nazi past and the bleak attempts by his German countrymen to recreate a country from the apocalypse - someone is still dedicated to murder. The first of a trilogy The Murderer in Ruins is at once evocative, impeccably plotted and beautifully textured, vividly describing a poignant moment in British/German history, with a plot so divinely seamless and riveting, you'll be unable to put it down. A spine-tingling portrayal of pure evil, with multiple twists, turns and subplots, you'll have no idea, until the final extraordinary denouement, what - or who - will rise from the ashes. 'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year.' -The Independent
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
ISBN-13
9781910050484
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214446394
Product Key Features
Author
Cay Rademacher
Publication Name
The Murderer in Ruins
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
334 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
196mm
Item Width
128mm
Item Weight
260g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Cay Rademacher
Series Title
Frank Stave Investigations
Topic
Crime, Books, World War II
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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