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Crime & mystery, Short stories, Fiction in translation
From the internationally bestselling author and one of Germany's most prominent criminal defence lawyers, another thrilling collection of crime stories exploring guilt and the affect it has - or doesn't - on ordinary people who have committed unspeakable acts
'Devastating and fascinating' New York Times
'Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose' Observer
A group of respectable family men are charged with the brutal murder of a teenager.
A promising student gets caught up in a sadistic schoolboy gang.
A couple are bound together by the events of one bloody night.
Where do you draw the line between good and evil?
In Guilt, people commit violent, extraordinary acts; some are convicted in a court of law, others are not. But our narrator, a nameless lawyer, knows that this is never the whole story.
Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach's eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, the stories in Guilt blur fiction and truth, compelling us to question the difference between guilt and justice, innocence and complicity.
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Ferdinand von Schirach
Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964. Today he works in Berlin and is one of Germany's most prominent defence lawyers. His short story collections Crime and Guilt and novels The Collini Case and The Girl Who Wasn't There were instant bestsellers in Germany, and his work has been translated into over thirty languages. Film adaptations of his stories are under way.
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