Dead Hand

After the no. 1 Spiegel bestseller “Schwarzwasser”: case 8 for Wallner and Kreuthner!

The burial of a hand leads Police Sergeant Kreuthner to the discovery of an unusual corpse: darkly humorous, typically Bavarian and gripping! Of all people it is game of cards Schafskopf champion Johann Lintinger who loses his right hand in a scrap metal press. Police Sergeant Kreuthner decides that this legendary right hand deserves a dignified burial and so a grave is dug next to the old chapel. While digging “corpse Leo” is once again true to his name for the plot is already occupied ... by another hand and a half decomposed male corpse who has an illegibly signed farewell note with him. Suicide? Murder? Or both? Soon, Inspector Wallner and the criminal investigation department have more questions than answers. English translation of vol. 1, “Prinzessinnenmörder” (The Murderer of the Princesses) available.

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  • Publisher: Knaur HC
  • Release: 20.08.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-65447-7
  • 384 Pages
  • Series: Ein Wallner & Kreuthner Krimi
  • Author: Andreas Föhr
Dead Hand
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Andreas Föhr

Andreas Föhr, born in 1958, studied law and gained a doctorate in Munich. For many years, he worked as a lawyer, including a stint in Nairobi, before making a name for himself writing screenplays. His prize-winning crime novels about the investigating duo Wallner and Kreuthner regularly feature in the best seller charts. In Rachel Eisenberg, he has now created a character who not only shares his legal knowledge but also the belief that everyone, guilty or not, deserves a defence counsel. Andreas Föhr lives close to Wasserburg.