Shattered (Prequel to Cut Off)

(Co-Author Wolf-Ulrich Schüler)

Shattered is based on real cases, true investigations and decades-long professional experience by the forensic expert and author Michael Tsokos.

»Paul Herzfeld is back! Cabptivating. Gripping. Fascinating. A forensic roller coaster
ride. The backstory of Shattered with an even deeper true crime factor.« Sebastian
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Forensic expert Paul Herzfeld is irritated when his superior, Prof. Schneider, surprisingly  commits himself to a machete as a murder weapon during the autopsy of a dismembered female body. The autopsy assistant also appears unusually nervous and agitated. And indeed, the blood-stained murder weapon appears shortly afterwards in a park in Kiel: an artistically decorated machete. The media immediately hail as a forensics genius; his rise to director of forensic medicine in Kiel seems a mere formality. But then the institute’s janitor confesses to Herzfeld that he has seen the machete before and that the dead woman is no stranger to him...

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 01.03.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-52438-1
  • 416 Pages
  • Series: Die Paul Herzfeld-Reihe
  • Author: Prof. Dr. Michael Tsokos
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Prof. Dr. Michael Tsokos

Michael Tsokos, born in 1967, is a professor of Forensic Medicine and head of the State Institute for Legal and Social Medicine in Berlin. He is the best known German forensic scientist and regularly works as an expert in Germany and abroad, among others for the Federal Criminal Police, identifying the victims of terror attacks and mass disasters. He has written 26 books to date, all of them SPIEGEL bestsellers.  Follow Michael Tsokos on Instagram: @dr.tsokos