The Collini Case - Hardcover

Schirach, Ferdinand Von

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670026522 ISBN 13: 9780670026524

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2013

Synopsis

The internationally bestselling courtroom drama centering on a young German lawyer and a case involving World War II

A bestseller in Germany since its 2011 release?with rights sold in seventeen countries?The Collini Case combines the classic courtroom procedural with modern European history in a legal thriller worthy of John Grisham and Scott Turow.

Fabrizio Collini is recently retired. He’s a quiet, unassuming man with no indications that he’s capable of hurting anyone. And yet he brutally murders a prominent industrialist in one of Berlin’s most exclusive hotels.

Collini ends up in the charge of Caspar Leinen, a rookie defense lawyer eager to launch his career with a not-guilty verdict. Complications soon arise when Collini admits to the murder but refuses to give his motive, much less speak to anyone. As Leinen searches for clues he discovers a personal connection to the victim and unearths a terrible truth at the heart of Germany’s legal system that stretches back to World War II. But how much is he willing to sacrifice to expose the truth?

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Review:

A magnificent storyteller (Der Spiegel)

A murder trial full of political explosiveness: thrilling, clever, staggering (Focus)

Terrific (Elle)

Ferdinand von Schirach brilliantly draws you under his spell (Bunte)

From the Back Cover:

'Meticulously constructed, devastating. A miracle of purpose and precision' Financial Times

Fabrizio Collini, a quiet, respectable Mercedes Benz worker, walks into a luxurious Berlin hotel, kills a man in cold blood and waits for the police.

Taking the case is young attorney Caspar Leinen: he knows a not-guilty verdict will make his name. But too late he discovers that the victim - a popular industrialist - is known to him.

Caught in a professional and personal dilemma, Leinen is encouraged by others to give up the case. His reputation, career and even friendships are at stake.

But when he makes a shocking discovery it eclipses his own fears and hints at a terrible truth at the heart of modern Germany . . .

'A gem - sly, trenchant and provocative, none of its conclusions foregone' John O'Connell, Guardian

'I thoroughly enjoyed it'Mark Lawson, Radio 4

'How it should be done' Metro

'Excellent, tense, taut, disturbing'Scotsman

'A masterful tale' Stylist

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0670026522
• ISBN 13: 9780670026524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190