Snow White Must Die
by Nele Neuhaus, Robert Fass, Steven Murray
On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace. In a trial based only on circumstantial evidence, twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius, Rita Cramer's son, was sentenced to ten years in prison. Bodenstein and Kirchhoff discover that Tobias, after serving his sentence, has now returned to his hometown. Did the attack on his mother have something to do with his return?In the village, Pia and Oliver encounter a wall of silence. When another young girl disappears, the events of the past seem to be repeating themselves in a disastrous manner. The investigation turns into a race against time, because for the villagers it is soon clear who the perpetrator is—and this time they are determined to take matters into their own hands.
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Author Biography
Nele Neuhaus was born in Muenster, Westphalia and raised in Paderborn. She has been living in the Taunus region since her childhood and has been writing just as long. Her crime thriller series with investigators Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff is set in the Vordertaunus region. The large Berlin publisher Ullstein discovered her and took her under contract. Before that, it was self-published. The series made her one of the most widely read crime writers in Germany. Her Taunus crime thrillers have so far reached a total circulation of 3.5 million copies, the rights have been sold to 20 countries, including Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Korea, Russia, Brazil, Poland, China, Czech Republic, Croatia, Greece and the USA. The author lives with her partner and her dog in the Vordertaunus region. A two-time Audie Award winner, veteran actor Robert Fass is at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters and dialects. In addition, his work was listed among AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of the Year in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Robert has given voice to modern and classic fiction writers alike, including Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Carlos Fuentes, Jeffrey Deaver and Nele Neuhaus, plus bestselling nonfiction works in history, politics, health, journalism, philosophy and business. Steven T. Murray (born 7 October 1943) is an American translator from Swedish, German, Danish, and Norwegian. He has worked under the pseudonyms Reg Keeland and McKinley Burnett when edited into UK English. He translated the bestselling Millennium series by Stieg Larsson,three crime novels and two African novels by Henning Mankell, three psychological suspense novels by Karin Alvtegen, and works by many other authors. In 2001 he won the Gold Dagger Award in the UK for his translation of Sidetracked by Henning Mankell.
Review
'...[an] emotional page turner, fueled by unexpected plot twists.' -- Kirkus Reviews
'This novel is bursting with conspiracy and subterfuge and a raw exposition of the ugliness that can inhabit the human soul. Like detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein, readers won't stop until the shocking ending is finally revealed.' -- USA Today
'With more twists and turns than you can shake a stick at and a suitably over-the-top ending, Snow White Must Die is excellent poolside fare.' -- The Guardian
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An atmospheric, character-driven and suspenseful mystery set in a small town that could be anywhere, dealing with issues of gossip, power, and keeping up appearances.
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