Ostland
By: David Thomas
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781444820621
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: February, 1941, wartime Berlin: brilliant young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains, their battered bodies abandoned by the tracks. July 1959, peacetime West Germany: a young lawyer, Paula Siebert, is the sole woman in a unit investigating men who have committed crimes of unimaginable magnitude. Their leader has just been arrested. Siebert is sure of his guilt, but one question haunts her: how could a once-decent man have become a monster? Based on an extraordinary true story, [this] is a harrowing account of the Holocaust and a thought-provoking examination of the capacity for sin that lurks in every human soul.
Notes: Originally published: London: Quercus, 2013.