Best-selling author Kai Meyer creates a masterful blend of historical crime novel and bibliophile horror story
in the Baltic, shortly before the start of the First World War. Deep snow and endless forests cut a manor house off from the world. It is here that the young editor Paula Engel travels from Leipzig to inspect the manuscript of the writer Aschenbrand. Paula and her fiancé Jonathan meet a fascinating eccentric who harbours a dark secret.
Leipzig, 1933. In the legendary Graphisches Viertel, Inspector Cornelius Frey, who has been dismissed by the Nazis, saves a girl's life. As they part, she whispers, ‘They all weep in the cellar without stairs’. The next night, she is found murdered, lying next to a dead policeman. On the trail of the murderer, Cornelius fights his way back into his old job and stumbles upon a network of occultists and conspirators, Freemasons and fanatics. What was their connection to Paula and Jonathan, who disappeared without a trace in the Baltic States twenty years ago?
‘Atmospherically dense and peppered with many historical elements, Kai Meyer captivates with a highly exciting narrative.’ Passauer Neue Presse about The Library in the Fog
