Miss Zeisig and the American Friend

  • Multifaceted crime novel set in the Munich of the sixties
  • Case no. 2 for Miss Zeisig
  • For readers with an interest in contemporary history
  • “The author understands how to simultaneously bring historic events [...] and the zeitgeist of the sixties to life.” WDR 4 on “Fräulein Zeisig und der frühe Tod”

On the day of Kennedy’s assassination, a delicate job takes Elke Zeisig, Munich’s first female inspector, to the American soldiers’ settlement in Perlacher Forst. The female police inspector had received an anonymous tip-off that the wife of a US sergeant was abusing her foster child. While Elke goes ever deeper into the isolated parallel world of military wives, an African-American GI is stabbed in a flat in Schwabing. Is it a racist attack? Was the dead man involved in drug dealing in a well known jazz club? And what are the military wives hiding?

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 01.07.2021
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-52618-7
  • 304 Pages
  • Series: Zeisig und Manschreck ermitteln
  • Author: Kerstin Cantz
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Kerstin Cantz Miss Zeisig and the American Friend
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Kerstin Cantz

Kerstin Cantz was born in Potsdam in 1958. After studying journalism, she worked as a freelance journalist, was an editor at a private TV station and today works as a screenplay and novel author. Her first novel, “Die Hebamme”, was an instant success and stormed the best seller charts. Kerstin Cantz lives with her family close to Munich.

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