Andrea Maria Schenkel

På en afsides gård i 1950'ernes Tyskland findes de seks beboere brutalt myrdet. Gennem naboers og bekendtes udsagn fortælles om den ensomme og upopulære familie og om sagens opklaring

Tannöd

A whole family has been murdered with a pickaxe. They were old Danner the farmer, an overbearing patriarch, his put-upon devoutly religious wife, and their daughter Barbara Spangler, whose husband Vincenz left her after fathering her daughter, Marianne. Also murdered was the Danners' new maidservant, Marie, who was regarded as slightly simple. Despite the brutal nature of the killings and the small village where it has taken place, the police have no leads. Officially the crime is unsolved. And then a former resident returns home...The Murder Farm is an unconventional detective story. The author interweaves testament from the villagers, an oblique view of the murderer, occasional third-person narrative pieces and passages of pious devotion. The narrator leaves the village unaware of the truth, only the reader is able to reach the shattering conclusion.

The Murder Farm

Kathie ist dunkelhaarig, kräftig und hübsch. Genau wie die Frauen, die seit einiger Zeit in München spurlos verschwinden.

Roman

Kalteis

Kriminalroman

Mordbyn

After a normal day at work and as she is ready to head for home, Monika is bundled into a car, taken to an old mill and flung into a bunker. When she sees her attacker, she notices the starling resemblance to someone from her very dark and buried past. Was this a robbery gone wrong? Or has Hans returned for revenge?

Bunker

Bavaria, Germany, 1947. At the end of the war, Afra Zauner returns to her parents' cottage on the edge of Mauther Forest. Unmarried, and pregnant. As she struggles to raise her child, her father's shame, her mother's fury and the loud whispers of the neighbours begin to weigh upon her. She doesn't believe in her sin. But everyone else does. And someone brings judgement down upon her. Many years later, Hermann Müller is throwing a drunk out of his tavern. A traveller, who won't stop ranting about a murder left unsolved, about police who never investigated. Out of curiousity, the file is reopened. And in the cold light of hindsight, a chilling realisation creeps upon the community. No-one ever atoned for Afra's death. But her story is waiting to be told. Andrea Maria Schenkel returns to the form of her groundbreaking The Murder Farm, narrating through suspects, victims and investigators to lead the reader to their own awful understanding.

The Dark Meadow

It had been a normal day at work. Monika was locking up, ready to head home, when the man arrived. She didn't see his fist until it was far too late. Bundled into a car, tied up and taken in darkness to an old mill in the thick of a forest, she has been flung into a bunker. It is only now, as time passes and she sees her attacker in the light, that she notices the startling resemblance to someone from her very dark and buried past. Someone she never wanted to see again.

Landshut, 1922: Ein blutiger Doppelmord erschüttert ganz Süddeutschland. Als die ledige Clara Ganslmeier und ihre alte Mutter grausam ermordet in ihrer Wohnung gefunden werden, gerät die kleine bayerische Stadt in Aufruhr. Der Hauptverdächtige ist Hubert Täuscher, Sohn eines reichen Bürstenfabrikanten, das schwarze Schaf der Familie und Verlobter von Clara. Als er in den Gerichtssaal geführt wird, wo ihm wegen kaltblütigen Doppelmordes der Prozess gemacht werden soll, ist die Menge kaum noch zu halten. Aber Hubert Täuscher lässt sich nicht beirren - obwohl alle Indizien auf ihn verweisen, schweigt er beharrlich zu den Vorwürfen, beteuert bloß seine Unschuld. Ist er ein abgebrühter Mörder oder das Opfer eines Justizirrtums? Fürchtet er eine Rache, die schlimmer ist als das Todesurteil? Andrea Maria Schenkel erzählt hochspannend und psychologisch meisterhaft von einem Verbrechen, von Opfern und von Tätern - und von den Mechanismen des Verrats.

Täuscher

Munich, in the late thirties, the first years of fascism - the last before the war: Kathie is desperate to leave her sheltered village life and sets out for the city, determined that she'll get by, one way or another. She is dark-haired, buxom and pretty, like the women who recently disappeared without a trace. Young women are being found around Munich, abused and murdered. Josef Kalteis has been arrested, but is he really responsible for all those misdeeds? Did they execute the wrong one while the murderer is still on the loose? Spellbound by the magnetizing story of the dead women, the reader follows young Kathie. Somewhere in between her naive search for luck and existential concerns, occasional prostitution and the desire for true love, she is in grave danger. Andrea Maria Schenkel has again created a novel based on real events, in which the story is told through several voices and documentation, including interrogation logs, witness statements and the dark thoughts within the murderer's mind.

Ice Cold

Andrea Maria Schenkel's second novel Ice Cold recreates Munich, Germany in the 1930s to revisit a terrible crime, and offers thrilling crime fiction that draws on historical events. Ice Cold, like The Murder Farm, is told through several voices and documentation, including interrogation logs, witness statements, and the murderer's own internal monologue. Munich in the late 1930s-the first years of fascism and the last before the war-is a dangerous place. Kathie is desperate to leave her sheltered village life and sets out for the city, determined that she'll get by, one way or another. She is dark-haired, buxom and pretty, like the women who recently disappeared without a trace. Young women are being found around Munich, abused and murdered. Josef Kalteis has been arrested, but is he really responsible for all those misdeeds? Did they execute the wrong one while the murderer is still on the loose? Lost somewhere in between her naive search for luck and existential concerns, occasional prostitution and the desire for true love, Kathie is in grave danger.

Ein Mann überfällt abends eine Autovermietung. Als die einzige noch anwesende Angestellte den erhofften Schlüssel zum Tresor nicht hat, verschleppt er sie in einen Luftschutzbunker unter einer abgelegenen, verfallenen Mühle. Will er sie als Geisel nehmen? Oder einfach seine Macht über die Gefangene auskosten? Wovon wird er selbst getrieben? Ist es jemand aus ihrer Vergangenheit, die sich bald als weniger unschuldig erweist, als es zunächst schien? In der Abgeschiedenheit des Waldes entspinnt sich ein grausames Spiel. Andrea Maria Schenkel erweist sich in ihrem dritten Roman ein weiteres Mal als Meisterin des Unheimlichen und der menschlichen Abgründe.

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