Dark Heart

The second case for the beloved investigative duo Lona Mendt and Frank Elling: While working on a tricky murder case, the two are led into a web of dark secrets. 

At the center of the investigation is 12-year-old Sarah, a Bulgarian orphan girl to whom Lona Mendt feels a bond and who confronts her with her own tragic past. But two weeks into the investigation, Lona and Elling are shot and lie in a coma, while Sarah disappears without a trace. What led to this tragic turn of events? And who wanted to silence those involved?

Special investigators Maja Kaminski and Hagen Dudek take on the puzzling case. Deleted files and Dudek's own hidden agenda turn their search for the truth into a dangerous game and put Sarah's life is in grave danger.

This explosive and highly suspenseful story unfolds in two parallel narrative strands. Only gradually does this mysterious puzzle come together to form a coherent picture.

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  • Publisher: Kiepenheuer & Witsch eBook
  • Release: 01.10.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-31245-4
  • 464 Pages
  • Series: Die Toten von Marnow
  • Author: Holger Karsten Schmidt
Dark Heart
Holger Karsten Schmidt Dark Heart
Ira Zehender
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Holger Karsten Schmidt

Holger Karsten Schmidt , born in Hamburg in 1965, has been one of Germany’s most successful screenwriters for many years. In 2011, Kiepenheuer & Witsch published his medieval thriller Isenhart , followed in 2017 by the first volume of the Lost in Fuseta series set in Portugal and published under the pseudonym Gil Ribeiro. Holger Karsten Schmidt lives and works in Asperg in BadenWürttemberg.

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