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On a hot day in July, the body of a sixteen-year-old girl is pulled
from the river Main near Frankfurt. She has been brutally attacked
and murdered, but no one seems to miss her and no one seems to know
who she is. Investigations lead to a rural children's home in the
mountains, and to a TV presenter whose research took her too close
to the wrong people. As investigators Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von
Bodenstein dig deeper, they uncover a web of lies and deceit in the
midst of a middle-class idyll. And then the case gets personal . .
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A Richard and Judy Book Club selection. 'A must for mystery fans .
. . great customer reviews' The Bookseller Snow White Must Die by
Nele Neuhaus is the huge international bestseller - with over 3
million copies sold, and the first book in the Bodenstein &
Kirchoff crime series. On a wet November day, Detectives Pia
Kirchoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to the scene of a
mysterious accident. A woman has fallen from a bridge onto the
motorway below. It seems that she may have been pushed. The
investigation leads them to a small town near Frankfurt, and the
home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven
years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls, Laura and Stefanie
(also known as Snow White), vanished without trace from this same
village. In a trial based entirely on circumstantial evidence,
Stefanie's boyfriend, handsome and talented, Tobias Sartorius, was
sentenced to ten years in prison. He has now returned to his home
in an attempt to clear his name. Rita Cramer is his mother. In the
village, Pia and Oliver encounter a wall of silence. But when
another young girl goes missing, the events of the past repeat
themselves in a disastrous manner. The investigation turns into a
dramatic race against time, because for the villagers, there is
soon no doubt as to the identity of the perpetrator. And this time
they are determined to take matters into their own hands. 'Ms
Neuhaus is Germany's top-selling crime novelist, and her work is
catching on throughout Europe' Wall Street Journal
Ambitious, brilliant, and beautiful, Alex Sondheim is the
undisputed star of Wall Street—and she knows it. So it comes as
no surprise when Levy Manhattan Investments taps her to take their
prestigious firm to the next level. She can name her price, but can
she live up to their expectations? Because behind the glittering
façade of luxury offices, five-star dinners, and million-dollar
investments hides the firm’s true power player: a deadly criminal
cartel. Caught up in a steamy relationship with handsome
real-estate mogul Sergio Vitali, Alex is blind to the
danger—until an assassination attempt against the city’s
crusading mayor claims the lives of three innocent people. To
protect the city’s people and save herself, she’ll have to put
everything on the line: her job, her reputation…and her life. A
sleek Wall Street thriller pitting a brilliant young executive
against a lethal underground, Swimming with Sharks breathes
dangerous life into the cutthroat legacy of corporate banking.
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