Two Distant Lives
Two women on a lifelong search for the truth
Ricarda Raspe and her fiancé are delightedly expecting their first child. But then the birth at a Dresden hospital takes a turn for the worse, and Ricarda’s baby dies. According to the regulations, she can’t even see her child’s body one last time. Such is daily life in the GDR in 1973. And yet Ricarda Raspe doesn’t believe that her baby has died. She is more firmly convinced that her child has been the target of a government-sanctioned abduction. Young police officer Thomas Rust, an eyewitness of the dramatic incident, is also suspicious and jumps headfirst into a very dangerous investigation. Sixteen years later, young Claudia Behling starts her own search for the truth of her heritage and for the woman who supposedly gave her away at birth – her mother.
- A thrilling social novel about a much-discussed suspicion that was never proven, but could never be dismissed either
- A highly insightful and emotional narrative voice: Bestselling crime author Frank Goldammer reveals his versatility