In Times of Crime – Max Heller's First Case
First World War has ended and it's time for young policeman Max Heller's first case ...
It’s 1917, and 21-year-old Max Heller has just returned from the front, injured and traumatised. In Dresden, a city marked by violence, hunger, and political unrest, he searches tirelessly for distraction, for love, for a way back into life – in short, for something to do. Following a confrontation with a brutal gang, combined with his sense of justice and a bit of his grandfather's advice, he chooses to join the police force. Now a constable, Heller falls in love with young Karin while on a steamboat on the Elbe. But their differing backgrounds seem to make a relationship impossible …
Max Heller’s moving backstory with a shaken, haunted Germany as a backdrop.
- The spectacular prequel to the Max Heller series
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Frank Goldammer was born in Dresden in 1975. A painter and varnisher by trade, he began writing in his early twenties, self-publishing his first novels. For dtv he has written several successful historical crime thrillers set in Dresden and its surroundings.
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