The Death Rate: Auris – based on an idea by Sebastian Fitzek (A Jula and Hegel Thriller, Volume 2)

Acoustic forensics, an obscure profiler and a kidnapped baby perfectly describes the fast-paced sequel to the No. 1 Spiegel bestseller Auris by thriller authors Vincent Kliesch and Sebastian Fitzek!“

Help, my baby is gone! I only see blood...” After a brief scuffling sound, the mother’s panicky emergency call to the Berlin police suddenly breaks off. If anyone can draw conclusions about the woman’s whereabouts from this sound fragment, it is the forensic phonetician Matthias Hegel, whom some still consider a murderer. True Crime podcaster Jula Ansorge has succeeded in exonerating Hegel from the suspicion of murdering his wife, but in doing so she has come far too close to the dark side of the ingenious profiler. When Hegel now wants to use her research skills again in the case of the kidnapped baby, Jula refuses at first. But can she really leave the baby and its mother to their fate? And what about the information about her brother Moritz, who was believed to be dead, which Hegel allegedly wants to get for her?In the second part of the thriller series, bestselling authors Vincent Kliesch and Sebastian Fitzek once again pull out all the stops. Nothing is as it first seems and no one remains as innocent as he would like to be. Fast-paced suspense for fans of extraordinary thrillers with more than one unexpected plot twist!

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  • Publisher: Droemer TB
  • Release: 04.05.2020
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-30760-1
  • 352 Pages
  • Series: Ein Jula und Hegel-Thriller
  • Author: Vincent Kliesch
The Death Rate: Auris – based on an idea by Sebastian Fitzek (A Jula and Hegel Thriller, Volume 2)
Vincent Kliesch The Death Rate: Auris – based on an idea by Sebastian Fitzek (A Jula and Hegel Thriller, Volume 2)
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Vincent Kliesch

Vincent Kliesch born in 1974 in Zehlendorf, the author still lives in this part of Berlin today, which does not mean, however, that he has led a static life. After graduation, Kliesch trained as a restaurant specialist, but 2003 launched a career as a stand-up comedian and appeared, among other things in the “nonsense comedy club”. In 2010 he published his first thriller Die Reinheit des Todes, which became a bestseller. Two further volumes followed to round out the trilogy about the investigator Julius Kern and his counterpart Tassilo Michaelis. With his crime novel Bis in den Tod hinein Kliesch introduced his new investigator Severin Boesherz who was confronted with a terribly dark murder series in his first case. With Auris he wrote a novel based on an audio drama by his friend Sebastian Fitzek.