The Ice Queen: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Neuhaus, Nele

• Book ID: 108719646
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 639 KB
• Series: Bodenstein & Kirchhoff 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780312604264

✦ Synopsis

The body of92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near Frankfurt. Afive-digit number is scrawledin blood at the murder scene.The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully coveredtattoo on the corpse's arma blood type marker onceused 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, similarmurders happenone ofa wheelchair-boundoldlady in a nursing home, and one of a man witha cellar filled with Nazi paraphernaliaand slowly the connections between the victims becomes evident: All of them were lifelong friends withVera vonKaltensee, 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 whenthe two investigatorsrealize what the bloody number stands for, and uncover anold diary and an eyewitness who is finally willing to come forward.Nele Neuhaus's The Ice Queenis 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.