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Iron Summer / Der eiserne Sommer
Reitmeyer’s First Case
Crime Novel
A thrilling detective novel set against the backdrop of Munich in 1914
Those who are weak must be crushed.
Those who are weak must be crushed.
June 1914: two shots are fired in Sarajevo and the world marches toward the abyss. Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary’s heir apparent, is dead. At the same time, Inspector Reitmeyer has a difficult choice to make. He is tired of being a puppet to the chief of police.
The corpse of a young man leads him from the working class districts to the villas of the Grand Burghers. And from there, into the notorious Café Neptune, the officers’ pleasure grounds. The...
The corpse of a young man leads him from the working class districts to the villas of the Grand Burghers. And from there, into the notorious Café Neptune, the officers’ pleasure grounds. The...
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June 1914: two shots are fired in Sarajevo and the world marches toward the abyss. Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary’s heir apparent, is dead. At the same time, Inspector Reitmeyer has a difficult choice to make. He is tired of being a puppet to the chief of police.
The corpse of a young man leads him from the working class districts to the villas of the Grand Burghers. And from there, into the notorious Café Neptune, the officers’ pleasure grounds. The chief of police is pressuring him not to dig any deeper, and he is prevented from investigating the military by law. Then Reitmeyer makes a monstrous discovery, one that could not only make him an open target, but cast the entire country into ruin as well.
2014, 435 pages
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Angelika Felenda
Author
Angelika Felenda studied History and German Philology and now lives in Munich where she works as a literary translator and author.
Angelika Felenda
Author
Angelika Felenda studied History and German Philology and now lives in Munich where she works as a literary translator and author.
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