The murderer in ruins
By: Cay Rademacher ; translated from the German by Peter Millar
Contributors: Millar, Peter, translator
Series: Inspector Stave series -- 1
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781910050484
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Fiction; Murder; Investigation; History
Work titles: Trummermorder
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published as Der Trummermorder by Dumont Buchverlag, 2011.

Translated from the German.