» She felt a threat over there that she can’t put a name to yet. As if the obvious facts of this case were hiding a darker, colder truth. «

NIGHT WITHOUT SHADOWS

Night without shadows

Judith Krieger´s third case. Cologne, just after midnight. A deserted urban railway station. A driver - stabbed to death. A young woman who has evidently been coerced into prostitution. And a Russian pathologist with a dark past. For Krieger and Korzilius, the investigations unexpectedly turn into a tough test of their working partnership. And soon take them into a stifling world where violence against women is an everyday phenomenon.

NIGHT WITHOUT SHADOWS

Winner of the Friedrich Glauser Crime Writing Award
for best novel of 2009


Hardcover, Ullstein, Berlin 2008
Paperback, Ullstein, Berlin 2009
German version as audiobook, narrated by Maren Eggert, Hörbuch Hamburg, 2008

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It was a wet night when Judith Krieger is called to the scene of a murder: the driver of an urban train is lying next to his train; he has been stabbed to death. Her search for evidence or witnesses produces nothing whatsoever. Moreover, she’s worried about a young woman. She was found lying near the railway line and is in a coma. Who is she? The victim of human traffickers, a prostitute? Is she from Eastern Europe? What happened to her? When Judith pursues her investigations with Manni Korzilius in the red light district, unresolved conflicts come to the surface: from her past, when, as a student, she worked in a women’s refuge. Deeply engrained beliefs, her own fears. And while Manni is increasingly perplexed by Judith’s behaviour, someone else has sensed her fragility: someone who hates women and doesn’t shy away from murder. Someone who will become extremely dangerous for Judith.