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Indlæser... The Murderer in Ruinsaf Cay Rademacher
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is the first in a murder mystery trilogy set in the ruins of post-WWII Hamburg, a city devastated by Allied air raids. In the freezing winter of Jan/Feb 1947, with food and fuel in very short supply in the ice-bound city, Chief Inspector Frank Stave (pronounced Stah-vay) has to investigate the discovery of a series of naked bodies in bombed and rubble-strewn working class areas in the east or west of the city, bodies that seem to have nothing in common, lack clues as to their identities and, even more strikingly and hauntingly, are completely unclaimed and unrecognised when posters seeking for clues are posted all over Germany. The eventual solution to the mystery has its roots in the events of the war, which still looms large over the city and its inhabitants. This novel is very well written and Inspector Stave quite a well drawn and already quite hard bitten and cynical character, but who still hopes for a better life for his country. Hamburg itself is really the principle character of the novel, with its bleak and rubble-filled streets and wrecked buildings creating a very haunting atmosphere against the background of the one of the bitterest winters for many years. The storyline is based on a real series of murders carried out by a, still to this day, unknown "rubble murderer". A very good, if stark read, and I have already purchased the following two books in the series. Started this on January 24th, 2013, just after the last book I read. This was a free giveaway from Amazon at Kindle 12 days of XMas in Germany. Being German and born and living in Hamburg, I thought I would read this for a change, but of course it also has Nazis, though so far only on the sideline. Interesting to see my hometown described in rubbles after the war. The time is 1947, streets are often destroyed, a cold winter, people starving. And a killer, probable serial, leaves is victims naked lying in the open, though in places not too easily found. No CSI yet, and no DNA, not much to go on. For those who are born late after the war this book may be much more interesting as for those, who lived through the hard times. This is a book I will not recommend to my father. Good story and based on a true case. For that and the very authentic feeling 5 stars. Wie sieht eine Stadt nach Zusammenbruch und Kriegsende aus? Fürchterlich! Hoffnungslos! Und auch noch kalt, weil der Winter die Hansestadt Hamburg in ihrem eisernen Griff hält. Vor dieser Kulisse sieht sich Kommissar Stave mit mehreren nackten Leichen in Trümmergrundstücken konfrontiert, während er außerdem noch von seinen eigenen Dämonen verfolgt wird. Wir folgen seiner Spurensuche von Hamburg und lernen immer neue und andere Menschen kennen, die jedoch alle irgendwie nicht zur Lösung des Falles beitragen, bis auf einmal kurz vor Schluss auf einmal alle Puzzleteile (fast zu gut) auf ihren Platz fallen. Unglaublich faszinierend, wie Rademacher uns dieses Hamburg präsentiert, das letztendlich doch wieder als Phoenix aus der Asche erstanden ist. Das ist das Allerbeste in diesem Krimi. Und dass trotz aller Schrecknisse zum Schluss doch noch das Prinzip Hoffnung gilt, sorgt für ein befreites Aufatmen. Der Frühling hält endlich in Hamburg und im Leben der Menschen Einzug. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD 2016Hamburg, 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. No library descriptions found. |
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El cuerpo desnudo de una chica que ha sido degollada aparece entre las ruinas de unos edificios bombardeados. No se encuentra ninguna huella del culpable ni ninguna pista para identificar a la víctima. No hay testigos y nadie denuncia su desaparición... Para el inspector jefe, Frank Stave, un hombre traumatizado por la guerra, que perdió a su mujer en un bombardeo y cuyo hijo lleva dos años desaparecido, se presenta un caso complicado. Pero cuando aparece el cadáver de un hombre mayor en las mismas circunstancias, Stave intuye que no será la última víctima. Con la ayuda del oficial británico James McDonald y del compañero de la Brigada de Orden Público, Lothar Maschke, el inspector se adentrará en una investigación que también pondrá en juego su salvación personal.