Rademacher Cay - The Murderer In Ruins - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Shortlisted FOR THE CW a 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. B cher 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
Title: The Murderer In Ruins
Author(s): Rademacher Cay
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Barcode: 9781910050484
Pages: 334 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Series: Frank Stave Investigations
Category: Historical Mysteries