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Minotaur Books
January 2015
On Sale: December 30, 2014
Featuring: Oliver von Bodenstein; Pia Kirchoff
ISBN: 125006208X EAN: 9781250062086 Kindle: B00F8FOYNQ Hardcover / e-Book
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She looked at herself in the mirror, touched her fingertips
to the little red hood on her head, and laughed. The dress
was a real dirndl, with a short skirt and apron. Papa had
plaited her hair into two braids, and she really looked
exactly like Little Red Riding Hood in her fairy-tale book. He always brought presents—it was a secret that she and Papa
shared, because he never brought anything for the others.
Only for her. She was his favorite. The door opened, and she uttered a frightened cry when she
saw the wolf. But then she had to laugh. It wasn’t a real
wolf after all; it was only Papa, who had put on a costume.
How lovely it was that she was the only one to share this
secret with Papa. Too bad she could never remember anything
afterward. On a hot June day, the body of a sixteen-year-old girl
washes up on a riverbank outside of Frankfurt. She has been
brutally murdered and shows signs of long-term abuse, but no
one comes forward with any information as to her identity.
Even weeks later, the local police have not been able to
find out who she is. Then a new case comes in: A popular
television host is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk
of her own car. She survives, barely, and is able to supply
only vague hints to the police, having to do with her recent
investigations into an organization whose members are from
the highest echelons of society, and the potential
uncovering of a shocking history they’d prefer to keep from
the public eye. 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. It is almost too late for a person
very close to Pia before she and Oliver finally track down
the big bad wolf. . . . In Nele Neuhaus’s second U.S.
publication of her enormously popular series, tensions run
high both inside and outside police headquarters, and a
complex and unpredictable plot propels her characters
forward at breakneck speed.
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