A Thousand Devils
“This was the price of survival. He would pay for it with his dreams and his deepest, most unfathomable fears.”
A freezing winter, an occupied city, abandoned children, a brutal murderer on the loose—and Max Heller’s second case
Dresden, 1947: the city lies within the Soviet occupation zone and is still a desert of rubble and ruins. All through that bone-chilling winter, life is dominated by housing shortage, hunger and disease. Detective inspector Max Heller is summoned to the scene of a crime in Dresden Neustadt by the newly-instigated People’s Police. The victim seems to be a Red Army soldier. But before he gets a chance to begin his investigations he discovers that the Russian military has removed the corpse from the scene. All that remains is a frozen pool of blood and an abandoned rucksack. When Heller opens it, he makes a gruesome discovery: a man’s severed head...
- an accomplished historical crime novel; a first-rate read that puts the reader right in amongst the ruins of Dresden.
Frankfurter Stadtkurier - a breath-taking novel guaranteed to keep you up all night
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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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