Book of the month 2008

All member of the Danner family are murdered with a pickaxe: the farmer Barbara, her parents, her two children, Marianne and Josef, and finally the maid. The cruel murder takes place on an isolated farm in the Bavarian province – in a miserable archaic place populated by rural disingenuous inhabitants. More ...

In 1974 in Finland a young girl is raped and subsequently killed by a paedophile, condoned by another paedophile friend of his who witnesses the crime. Only a cross by the roadside reminds people passing by of what happened back then. 31 years later another young girl disappears exactly at this cross, and the as yet unsolved first case becomes the focus of the police again.

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The prologue of Die Mittagsfrau is set in Stettin of 1945. World War II is over; the family and hopes of a mother and her 7 year old son are dashed. What remains is hope for peace and a new beginning in regions, where this is still possible.

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