Showing results for "Ein Stein" in International Mystery & Crime

On a blazing hot summer’s day, holidaymakers at a guesthouse on a Norwegian island are shocked to discover a fellow guest has been found murdered out on a desolate plain. The nameless narrator, an author, was the last person to see the victim alive; shortly afterwards, he was disturbed by a noise like "a rattling of chains". A local tells him this is "the iron chariot", which is said to presage death. Drawn unwillingly into the investigation, the narrator is puzzled by an enigmatic detective’s apparent inaction, and troubled by unfolding events.

"Der Hundeflüsterer" ist der Auftakt der rasanten Thriller-Reihe mit dem ehemaligen BND-Ermittler David Stein von dem Bestsellerautoren B.C. Schiller. David Stein lebt zurückgezogen auf Mallorca und nennt sich selbst einen Hundeflüsterer. Was niemand weiß: Er hat als ehemaliger Geheimdienstmitarbeiter eine neue Identität angenommen, um nach dem Tod seiner Frau weit weg von Gewalt, Tod und Lügen ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Doch bald holt ihn die Vergangenheit wieder ein.

San Francisco, 1979. When ex-con PI Colleen Hayes is hired to find a missing person, she discovers an international vigilante group hunting down ex-Nazis. A World War II banknote and a 1942 SS ID of a German officer long thought dead lead her to Italy, where she uncovers a secret project hatched in a concentration camp. Colleen has no choice but to push ahead if the killing is to stop and justice prevail.