Minotaur Books
Featuring: Oliver von Bodenstein; Pia Kirchoff
400 pages ISBN: 1250039770 EAN: 9781250039774 Kindle: B008RLU19Y Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Tobias was only twenty when he was sentenced to ten years in
prison for the murder of his childhood friend Laura and his
girlfriend Stefanie. He has maintained his innocence and
since the bodies were never found, was convicted on
circumstantial evidence alone. His ten years are up and he
returns to his hometown at the same time one of the girls'
bodies is found. He wanted to start over, but now the cold
case is once again opened and his life is turned upside
down. Pia and Oliver, the two detectives assigned to the
case, find a wall of silence in Tobias' hometown, and when
another girl goes missing they must find her fast, because
the villagers are starting to take matters into their own
hands.
Nele Neauhaus has written a page turning mystery with
secretive characters, unexpected villains, sinister
conspiracies, and surprising heroes. The charming little
village of Altenhain is an ingenious setting for SNOW WHITE
MUST DIE. On the outside it is unassuming with every day
people, but the secrets the village holds will change lives
forever. Readers will soon find themselves thinking everyone
and at the same time no one, in the village is a suspect.
Neauhaus does a great job intertwining the lives of each of
the characters, and readers will be stunned by the
connections they have to each other.
Tobias is a wonderful character readers will empathize with
right away. Readers will hope he is innocent, all the while
wondering if he really did kill two girls. He is well -
rounded, and his emotions are so raw readers will feel right
along with him. Amelie is a bright, confident girl, who is
the perfect opposite to everyone in Altenhain. She is a
newcomer and outsider who easily be-friends Tobias. Pia and
Oliver make a great detective team, and though their
personal lives are part of the storyline, it never takes
away from the main mystery of SNOW WHITE MUST DIE, and only
helps Pia and Oliver grow and evolve as characters.
The plot twists and foreshadowing are extremely well done,
and readers will be kept guessing until the very end. There
isn't a dull moment, and as readers learn each characters'
secrets the mystery only thickens until the shocking climax,
and satisfying ending are revealed. SNOW WHITE MUST DIE is a
thrilling read with secrets around every corner, readers
won't be able to put down.
On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and
Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic
accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto
a
car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman
may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and
Oliver
to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita
Cramer.
On a September evening eleven years earlier, two
seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without
a
trace. In a trial based only on circumstantial evidence,
twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius, Rita Cramer's son, was
sentenced to ten years in prison. Bodenstein and Kirchhoff
discover that Tobias, after serving his sentence, has now
returned to his home town. Did the attack on his mother
have
something to do with his return? In the village, Pia and
Oliver encounter a wall of silence. When another young girl
disappears, the events of the past seem to be repeating
themselves in a disastrous manner. The investigation turns
into a race against time, because for the villagers it is
soon clear who the perpetrator is-and this time they are
determined to take matters into their own hands. An
atmospheric, character-driven and suspenseful mystery set
in
a small town that could be anywhere, dealing with issues of
gossip, power, and keeping up appearances.
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