Silence
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August 1939: six young people band together in the face of war-torn Germany, their friendship about to be put on trial as they land on opposite sides of World War II. Flash forward to November 1997: Robert Lubisch brings the group back together for the first time in decades to investigate a tragic family secret. Trust is shattered when one of the friends turns up murdered, leaving all of them guilty until proven innocent.
Winner of the 2012 Deutscher Krimi Prize for best crime novel.
Mechtild Borrmann
Mechtild Borrmann grew up in the Lower Rhine region of Germany, close to the Dutch border, and has lived in Bielefeld since 1983. She spent the first fifteen years of her career in a wide variety of teaching-related roles, followed by a year and a half in Corsica, before opening a restaurant in the center of Bielefeld. She has been a full-time writer since 2001, and To Clear the Air was her first novel. Silence, her third, won the Deutscher Krimi Preis in 2012 for best crime novel and was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize.
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