Murderer in Ruins, The (CI Frank Stave, 1)

Cay Rademacher

ISBN 10: 1543660894 ISBN 13: 9781543660890

Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, 2017

Synopsis

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 shantytowns 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 - in the wake of a wave of atrocity, the grim Nazi past and the bleak attempts by his German countrymen to re-create a country from the apocalypse - someone is still dedicated to murder.

A spine-tingling portrayal of pure evil, with multiple twists, turns and subplots. What, or who, will rise from the ashes?

About this title

About the Author:

Cay Rademacher was born in 1965 in Northern Germany, but lives now in Southern France. (Anybody who has seen both places knows why.) He has studied history and philosophy in Cologne and Washington, D.C. and is working as a journalist. He is also the author of several thrillers - including the trilogy on "Oberinspektor" Frank Stave, who is fighting crime in the ruins of British-occupied Hamburg in the 1940s.

Review:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2016

'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year' - Independent

'Vivid and harrowing' - Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1543660894
• ISBN 13: 9781543660890
• Binding: MP3 CD