The Protecting Hand

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The NSU murder series – murders committed by a right-wing extremist terrorist group targeting principally immigrants that went unsolved for years – is the subject of this spectacular crime novel by Wolfgang Schorlau. Taking up the real case that is currently still being negotiated in court, Schorlau asks the crucial questions:

Why did the police investigate only in the environment of the victims while there were clues pointing in another direction? Why are files being shredded just when investigations into the true perpetrators begin? Why has the secret service its fingers in every pie? What if this wasn’t merely a failure on the part of the authorities? Who is holding his protective hand over the murderers?

This crime novel has attracted the attention of the media and politics even before its publication. Wolfgang Schorlau, who is renowned for his controversial and meticulously researched crime novels, interweaves the results of his spectacular research with a breathtakingly suspenseful plot with private detective Dengler at its centre.

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  • Publisher: KiWi-Taschenbuch
  • Release: 06.04.2017
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-04931-2
  • 432 Pages
  • Series: Dengler ermittelt
  • Author: Wolfgang Schorlau
The Protecting Hand
Wolfgang Schorlau The Protecting Hand
Timo Kabel
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Wolfgang Schorlau

Wolfgang Schorlau lives and works as a freelance writer in Stuttgart. His acclaimed Dengler series, which has been adapted to the screen, now comprises 11 novels and sold 1,6 million copies. He received the German Crime Fiction Award in 2006 and the Stuttgart Crime Fiction Award in 2012 and 2014 and the Stuttgart Ebner Stolz Business Crime-Fiction Prize in 2019. Since 2020, with Claudio Caiolo, he has been co-writing the Venice crime novels featuring Comissario Morello.

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