The Silence of the Dead
by Maximilian Rosar
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Frankfurt, May 1967. When a corpse is pulled out of the Main river, Inspector Preusser is handed the investigation. The dead man is Simon Mandel, a young American journalist who was reporting on the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt, and so the case takes on a volatile political dimension. Although he is pressured to treat it like a robbery-motivated killing, Preusser has his doubts. Evidently the American was looking for files on Jewish children who were placed with party bigwigs during the war. Since the dead man’s notes are nowhere to be found, Preusser follows in his footsteps through Frankfurt and to Berlin, where Mandel had conducted research into the Nazi era at a documentation centre. His primary focus was the concentration camp at Ravensbrück. When a woman who was married to an SS man is murdered, Preusser believes he is finally on the right track.
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»People forget too easily and too quickly, and they usually also have the special gift of forgetting things they don’t want to think about.« Konrad Adenauer
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Maximilian Rosar is a professor of business administration, and lives with his wife and two daughters in Trier, in southwest Germany. The Silence of the Dead is his first novel in the series about Inspector Preusser. Writing under the pseudonym Paul Walz, he has previously published four crime novels and several short stories.
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- Publisher atb
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783746637037
- FormatPaperback
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleDie Stille der Toten
- Original Language AuthorsGerman
- Copyright Year2020
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