The murderer in ruins / Cay Rademacher ; translated from the German by Peter Millar.
Language: English Original language: German Series: Inspector Stave. 1 | Rademacher, Cay. Inspector Stave series ; 1.Publication details: London : Arcadia Books, 2015.Description: 290 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781910050484
- Trummermorder. English
- Historical fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Suspense fiction
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Detective and mystery stories
- Mystery fiction.#2lcgft
- Crime -- Adult fiction -- Print
- Suspense fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories
- Historical fiction.
- Mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction).
- Historical fiction.
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | RAD | Stave Bk.1 | Available | 065568 |
Originally published as Der Trummermorder by Dumont Buchverlag, 2011.
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 the German.