Novels
- The Murder Farm (2008)
- Ice Cold (2009)
- Bunker (2010)
- The Dark Meadow (2014)
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Andrea Maria Schenkel Books Overview
The Murder Farm
A whole family has been murdered with a pickaxe. They were old Danner the farmer, an overbearing patriarch; his put upon devoutly religious wife; and their daughter Barbara Spangler, whose husband Vincenz left her after fathering her daughter little Marianne. She also had a son, two year old Josef, apparently the result of her affair with local farmer Georg Hauer after his wife’s death from cancer. Hauer himself claimed paternity. Also murdered was the Danners’ new maidservant, Marie, who was regarded as slightly simple. ‘The Murder Farm‘ is an unconventional detective story. The author interweaves testament from the villagers, an oblique view of the murderer, occasional third person narrative pieces and passages of pious devotion. Officially the crime is unsolved, the narrator leaves the village unaware of the truth, only the reader is able to reach the shattering conclusion.
Ice Cold
It’s Munich in the 1930s. Young women are being raped and brutally murdered. They are disappearing on the quiet country lanes outside the city, cycling to destinations they will never reach. A Party member is executed for the crimes, but was he really guilty? Could the murderer still be out there? Kathie has come to Munich looking for work, but found herself drawn into the sleazy underworld of casual sex and occasional prostitution. Pretty and dark haired, she fits the profile of the murderer’s victims exactly. As she tries to reconcile her naive hopes for happiness and true love with the day to day struggle for existence, it becomes clear that she, like the others, is in grave danger.
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