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The Murderer in Ruins
- CI Frank Stave, Book 1
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. Food is scarce; refugees and the homeless crowd into shantytowns and sheds. There is a killer on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed.
Plagued with worry about his missing son, Frank Stave is a career policeman with a tragedy in his past that is driving his determination to find the killer. With the help of his colleague Maschke from the vice squad and Lt MacDonald from the British military, Stave has to find out why - in the wake of a wave of atrocity, the grim Nazi past and the bleak attempts by his German countrymen to re-create a country from the apocalypse - someone is still dedicated to murder.
A spine-tingling portrayal of pure evil, with multiple twists, turns and subplots. What, or who, will rise from the ashes?
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- Dan Rose
- 07-08-17
A Good Debut
Murderer in Ruins" is a novel set in an almost destroyed, post war Hamburg. Frank Stave is a detective who is asked to investigate the discovery of a naked women hidden in the ruin strewn city. She is the first but she won't be the last. Stave, working with his colleague, a British army officer and a seconded detective from the Vice Squad work to find out who she was and what may have lead to her death. During the investigation a further two bodies are discovered, that of an elderly man and a child both meeting the same fate as the first victim. Stave and his team have to establish if the deaths are linked and if so, by what?
This is Cay Rademacher's debut novel translated from German into English, and is good read, there are several twists and turns. In my view readers of Luke McCallin and Philip Kerr would particularly enjoy the Frank Stave series
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- C H.
- 23-07-23
Great Story.
Something kept me listening dispite the odd translation of some words. Glad I did, really good, story with good characters. Enjoy.
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- Pendrian
- 13-08-17
Excellent thriller come detective story
I have never tried this author before but I will definitely be listening and or reading his other books.
The plot is very good with unexpected twists and turns and the characters very believable and in the case of the good guys I liked them a lot. The descriptions of Hamburg after the war are so clear you can almost feel you are there. I also liked the narrator he seemed apt for the characters and storyline.
I thoroughly recommend
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- Anonymous User
- 17-01-20
Exciting and very well written
Super exciting book, very well written & researched. Just had to listen the whole way through. Going right to Audible to buy the next: The Wolf children.
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- Genny F
- 27-06-18
Disappointed
This was poorly written, nothing much happened until chapter 11, and it finished at chapter 16. I wasted my time listening to this, waiting for it to improve. Save yourself the bother, don’t even start if
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