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The thrilling next book in the internationally bestselling series that began with Snow White Must Die

On a hot June day the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washes up on a river bank outside of Frankfurt. She has been brutally murdered, but no one comes forward with any information as to her identity. Even weeks later, the local police have not been able to identify her. Then a new case comes in: a popular television reporter is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her own car. She survives—barely—and is able to supply certain hints to the police having to do with her recent investigations into a child welfare organization and the potential uncovering of a child pornography ring with members from the highest echelon of society.

As the two cases collide, Inspectors Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein dig deep into the past and underneath the veneer of bourgeois society to come up against a terrible secret that is about to impact their personal lives as well. In Nele Neuhaus' second US publication of her enormously popular series, tensions run high, and a complex and unpredictable plot propels her characters forward at breakneck speed.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 18, 2013
      Neuhaus’s sequel to Snow White Must Die demonstrates the author’s maturing skills. The drowned teen on the banks of the Main River near Frankfurt appears to be the third victim of a summer party gone horribly wrong, but the water in her lungs is not river water, her battered corpse is not fresh, and her identity is a mystery. As Chief Supt. Pia Kirchhoff and her team at Kommissariat 11 work to discover who imprisoned and brutalized the young victim, more violence erupts: a scandal-mongering reporter is beaten, raped, and stuffed into the trunk of her own car, and a psychiatrist is consigned to a lingering, terrible death. Linking the murders is a tapestry of abuse and corruption, one that reaches to the lofty heights of German society and into Pia’s own department. While Pia has a surprising number of personal connections to the bad guys, this nuanced effort suggests why the author is a bestseller in her native Germany.

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2014

      Holy multiple plotlines that all converge, Batman! Neuhaus's (Snow White Must Die) latest will please fans of police procedurals and investigation-oriented mysteries, although listeners may suspect some of the red herrings sooner than the author intends. Police and government corruption intersect with rape and murder when the body of an unidentified teenager turns up outside of Frankfurt and a reporter who's been looking into a child pornography ring is attacked. Inspectors Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein investigate. Robert Fass's narration conveys tension when describing the more disturbing events, particularly those involving violence against women and children, and he ably handles the foreign names and a variety of accents. VERDICT A respectable outing for fans of the genre who are not looking for anything new. ["Fans of Jo Nesbo's gritty thrillers will enjoy the intricacies of the plot," read the review of the Minotaur: St. Martin's hc, LJ 1/14.]--Victoria A. Caplinger, NoveList, Durham, NC

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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