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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD 2016
'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read
this year' Independent 'Vivid and harrowing' Sunday Times 'Police
procedural, romance, thriller The Murderer in Ruins has a bit of
everything and it's one hell of a read.' Bucher Hamburg, 1947 A
ruined city occupied by the British, who bombed it, experiencing
the coldest winter in living memory. Food and supplies are
rationed; refugees and the homeless are crammed into concrete
bunkers and ramshackle huts; trade on the black market is rife. A
killer is 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 frustration and anger
mounting in an already tense city, Stave is under increasing
pressure to find out why - 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 still has the
stomach for murder. The first of a trilogy, The Murderer in Ruins
vividly describes a poignant moment in British-German history, with
a riveting plot that culminates in a shocking denouement.
Translated from ther German by Peter Millar
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The Forger (Paperback)
Cay Rademacher; Translated by Peter Millar
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD 2019 Hamburg,
1948 In a routine operation, Chief Inspector Frank Stave is shot
down. He survives, but transfers from the murder commission to the
office combatting the black market. There, Stave is confronted with
an enigmatic case: Trummerfrau, women helping to clear rubble from
Hamburg's bombed streets, discover works of art from the Weimar
period - right next to a unidentified corpse. Shortly afterwards,
mysterious banknotes whose existence disturbs the Allies' secret
plans begin to pop up on the black market. The Supervisor soon
discovers strange parallels between the two cases. With the
introduction of a new currency, Stave thinks he is on the brink of
a solution. But the truth is dangerous, and not just for him.
Praise for the Frank Stave Investigations 'Undoubtedly the most
powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year' Independent
'Vivid and harrowing' Sunday Times 'Police procedural, romance,
thriller The Murderer in Ruins has a bit of everything and it's one
hell of a read.' Bücher Reader Reviews for The Forger 'An
excellent series based in Hamburg just after World War II.
Interesting characters and story lines - a view from defeated
Germany we wouldn't normally hear' ***** 'Characters were good,
plot good and it really highlights post war Germany and the
inequalities among both sides. The only really disappointing thing
is there is not a fourth one to read' ***** 'I could not put it
down. Brilliant' ***** Translated from the German by Peter Millar
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The Wolf Children (Paperback)
Cay Rademacher; Translated by Peter Millar
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Book Two of the Inspector Frank Stave Investigations, a German
detective trilogy set in post-WWII Hamburg. More than 150,000
copies sold. Hamburg, 1948 It is a year of extremes. After a
bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under
excruciating heat. And Chief Inspector Frank Stave is confronted
with a new case. In the ruins of a shipyard, the corpse of a boy is
found and Stave's hunt for the killer leads him into the world of
"wolf children" - orphaned children who have fled from the Occupied
Eastern Territories and are now united in gangs. When two more
bodies are discovered Stave is under even increasing pressure as he
struggles to keep his personal life together too . . . Praise for
the Frank Stave Investigations 'Undoubtedly the most powerful work
of crime fiction I have read this year' Independent 'Vivid and
harrowing' Sunday Times 'Police procedural, romance, thriller The
Murderer in Ruins has a bit of everything and it's one hell of a
read.' Bucher Reader reviews for The Wolf Children 'This is writing
at its best. A well crafted murder hunt set in haunting landscape
of post war Hamburg. Cay Rademacher has again written a book that
will stay in my memory for a long time' ***** 'Another atmospheric,
well-researched novel from Rademacher. He has a remarkable ability
to bring characters to life in the space of a paragraph' ***** 'A
bit of a goldilocks book. Not too heavy, not too light, not too
long, not too short. Just about right' ***** Translated from the
German by Peter Millar
August: the air over Provence shimmers in suffocating heat.
Capitaine Roger Blanc and his colleague Marius Tonon are called to
the Camargue. A black fighting bull has escaped from the pasture
and has gored a cyclist. A bizarre accident, or so it initially
seems. Until Blanc discovers evidence that someone left the gate
open intentionally... The deceased is Albert Cohen, political
magazine reporter, fashion intellectual from Paris, TV personality.
He was in the Camargue to write a major article on Vincent van
Gogh. Yet what has that got to do with the attack? Blanc comes
across Cohen's incomplete report during his investigation, which is
not quite as harmless as it initially appeared. And also a
spectacular, never solved burglary on the Cote d'Azur, and an old,
deadly story that absolutely everyone wants to forget. By the end,
Blanc feels a little more at home in his new surroundings in
Provence. But he pays a high price for it.
The stress is too much for his marriage, and he attempts to manage
the break-up while trying to settle into his new life in Provence
in a 200-year-old, half-ruined house. At the same time, Blanc is
tasked with his first murder case: A man with no friends and many
enemies, an outsider, was found shot and burned. When a second man
dies under suspicious circumstances in the quaint French
countryside, the Capitaine from Paris has to dig deep into the
hidden, dark undersides of Provence he never expected to see.
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