Minotaur Books
Featuring: Oliver Bodenstein; Vera von Kaltensee; Jossi Goldberg
352 pages ISBN: 0312604262 EAN: 9780312604264 Kindle: B00L73W2WS Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
When three elderly people are murdered, investigators Pia
Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are determined to find
the killer. But when they discover that the three victims
are not who they seem to be, Pia and Oliver are thrown
into
a revenge story that started in World War II.
THE ICE QUEEN is a mysterious crime story with twists that
will keep readers guessing who the real villain is until
the
very end. People are not who they seem, and lead
investigators Oliver and Pia find themselves in a mystery
dating back to World War II. Oliver and Pia make a great
team and their camaraderie and friendly repertoire give
them
emotional depth, and they will have readers' empathy. Nele
Neuhaus gives readers a glimpse into the lives of many
characters as clues to the killer are reveled.
Neuhaus does a wonderful job describing the setting of THE
ICE QUEEN, and even if the reader has never been to
Germany,
they will easily be able to picture the town and people
within THE ICE QUEEN. With revenge, deception, murder,
secret identities, and love triangles THE ICE QUEEN
becomes
a suspenseful thriller with a fast paced plot and
intriguing
characters.
The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor
and American citizen, is found shot to death execution
style
in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is
scrawled
in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old
and
unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arm—a blood
type marker once used by Hitler's SS.
Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a
riddle.
Was the old man not Jewish after all? Who was he, really?
Two more, similar murders happen—one of a wheelchair-bound
old lady in a nursing home, and one of a man with a cellar
filled with Nazi paraphernalia—and slowly the connections
between the victims becomes evident: All of them were
lifelong friends with Vera von Kaltensee, baroness,
well-respected philanthropist, and head of an old, rich
family that she rules with an iron fist.
Pia and Oliver follow the trail, which leads them all the
way back to the end of World War II and the area of Poland
that then belonged to East Prussia. No one is who they
claim
to be, and things only begin to make sense when the two
investigators realize what the bloody number stands for,
and
uncover an old diary and an eyewitness who is finally
willing to come forward.
Nele Neuhaus's The Ice Queen is a character- and
plot-driven mystery about revenge, power, and long-
forgotten
and covered up secrets from a time in German history that
still affects the present.
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