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THE MISSING

Dirk Kurbjuweit

  • Original Title: HAARMANN
  • Publication date: February 2020
  • Publisher: Penguin Verlag
  • Country: DE
  • 320 print pages
  • Crime fiction/Detective novel

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  • Epoch: Historical
  • Time Period: 20th century
  • Location setting: Germany
  • Themes: FAMILY, Homosexuality, PEOPLE facing life, Search for the truth, Death, Double identity, PEOPLE facing the extraordinary, Identity fraud, Psychological dysfunction, SOCIETY DYSFUNCTIONS, Homophobia, Violence, Power, LOVE / HATE, Perversion, Sex

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Lonely Inspector Robert Lahnstein struggles to solve a never-ending series of murders in Hanover. He battles to maintain his own standards under mounting pressure from parents of the boy-victims, his own colleagues and a volatile political situation anticipating the rise of the Nazis.

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Translation rights sold: Australia

Penguin Random House Germany’s edition of HAARMANN was published earlier in 2020 and despite COVID-19 has already sold over 15,000 copies.

Dirk Kurbjuweit is a German writer and journalist. He has been awarded several prestigious prizes for his journalism, including the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize and the Novel Herzog Media Prize. He is also the author of several nonfiction and fiction titles, three of which have been adapted into feature films, including THE LONELINESS OF THE CROCODILES and THE TWO WITHOUT.

Summary

Hanover, Germany, in the 1920s - the heady days of the Weimar Republic, of clashes between the police and political radicals, while the firebrand demagogue Adolf Hitler languishes in prison. A time of brutality and passion, of traumatised souls and attacks on democracy - and of grisly crime.

Based on the deeds of the most notorious serial killer in German history, Dirk Kurbjuweit’s THE MISSING is a sophisticated exploration of the relationship between crime, politics and society in a world in which anything seems possible.

Boys are disappearing from the streets of Hanover, one by one. Their parents are in despair and the whole city is terrified. Every day new and gruesome rumours take wing. It’s as if the missing have vanished from the face of the earth, leaving no trace. No one believes that the government or the police can keep the children of Hanover safe.

Detective Inspector Robert Lahnstein is assigned to the case, and is soon convinced that he is on the trail of a psychopath. Lahnstein knows he needs a new victim to lead him to the killer but he dreads the day when news will reach him of another lost boy.


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  • Author’s biography

    Dirk Kurbjuweit is a German writer and journalist. He has been awarded several prestigious prizes for his journalism, including the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize and the Novel Herzog Media Prize. He is also the author of several nonfiction and fiction titles, three of which have been adapted into feature films, including THE LONELINESS OF THE CROCODILES and THE TWO WITHOUT.