Title: Killing of Emma Gross
Description: The killing of Emma Gross is a gripping police thriller set during the dying days of the Weimar Republic in Germany. Peter Kurten - the first man described as a serial killer - is arrested. He confesses to the unsolved murder of a prostitute, emma Gross, but Detective thomas Klein does not believe him. The evidence for that crime does not stack up, and Klein thinks the real murderer might be closer to home. In the background the last days of sexual freedom are being played out and the police force is increasingly divided between right and left.
Subjects: Fiction, crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Germany, fiction, Fiction, History