Pieke Biermann

Pieke Biermann - Violetta

(West) Berlin in the summer of 1989. In the sweltering heat and a politically tense situation, Inspector Karin Lietze has two cases of serial killing to investigate.

Violetta (Part 1)

She stepped out of the door and turned left up Goltz Strasse toward Winterfeldt Platz. There's no market on Monday, and she strolled diagonally across the rectangle in front of the church. A few years ago they had put down granite paving stones...

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Violetta (Part 2)

The west side of Zieten Strasse was in the shade. A few kids were playing there. The treeless east side, on which houses were mercilessly exposed to the burning sun, baked in tbe heat. The curtains were drawn in all the windows...

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