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The Wolf Children (Frank Stave Investigations Book 2) by [Cay Rademacher, Peter Millar]

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Book Two of the Inspector Frank Stave Investigations, a German detective trilogy set in post-WWII Hamburg. More than 150,000 copies sold.

Hamburg, 1948

It is a year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under excruciating heat. And Chief Inspector Frank Stave is confronted with a new case.

In the ruins of a shipyard, the corpse of a boy is found and Stave's hunt for the killer leads him into the world of "wolf children" - orphaned children who have fled from the Occupied Eastern Territories and are now united in gangs.

When two more bodies are discovered Stave is under even increasing pressure as he struggles to keep his personal life together too . . .

Praise for the Frank Stave Investigations

'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year' Independent

'Vivid and harrowing' Sunday Times

'Police procedural, romance, thriller The Murderer in Ruins has a bit of everything and it's one hell of a read.' Bücher

Reader reviews for The Wolf Children

'This is writing at its best. A well crafted murder hunt set in haunting landscape of post war Hamburg. Cay Rademacher has again written a book that will stay in my memory for a long time' *****

'Another atmospheric, well-researched novel from Rademacher. He has a remarkable ability to bring characters to life in the space of a paragraph' *****

'A bit of a goldilocks book. Not too heavy, not too light, not too long, not too short. Just about right' *****

Translated from the German by Peter Millar

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21 February 2017
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Cay Rademacher was born in 1965 in Northern Germany, but lives now in Southern France. He studied history and philosophy in Cologne and Washington, D.C. and is working as a journalist. He is also the author of several thrillers, including the trilogy on "Oberinspektor" Frank Stave, who is fighting crime in the ruins of British-occupied Hamburg in the 1940s.

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Cay Rademacher was born in 1965 and studied Anglo-American history, ancient history, and philosophy in Cologne and Washington. He has been an editor at Geo since 1999, and was instrumental in setting up renowned history magazine Geo-Epoche. The Murderer in Ruins is the first novel in the Inspector Stave series; The Wolf Murderer and The Forger have also been published by Arcadia Books. He now lives in France with his wife and children, where his new crime series is set. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09GBPRS2S
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arcadia Books (21 February 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Best Sellers Rank: 110,582 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- 94 in History of Germany (Kindle Store)
- 1,143 in Historical Mysteries (Kindle Store)

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Cay Rademacher was born in 1965 in Northern Germany, but lives now in Southern France. (Anybody who has seen both places knows why.) He has studied history and philosophy in Cologne and Washington, D.C. and is working as a journalist. He is also the author of several thrillers - including the trilogy on "Oberinspektor" Frank Stave, who is fighting crime in the ruins of British-occupied Hamburg in the 1940s. He is currently writing a series with Capitaine Roger Blanc of the French Gendarmerie, a "flic" from Paris, who was send against his will to Southern France. Soon enough, Blanc discovers the darker and even murderous sides of the Provence.

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Peter Doyle

Much ado about not much

Reviewed in Australia on 15 August 2021

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I struggled to believe that a dead boy in Hamburg one year after the war ended would have caused such a carry on. A ridiculous ending also. I gave it three stars as after a few pages I would sleep. Not recommended.

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George Bognar

ANOTHER EXCELLENT READ

Reviewed in Australia on 5 May 2019

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Not as tense an atmosphere as the first novel in the Inspector Frank Stave series (The Murderer in Ruins) but I enjoyed the development of the main characters. Fascinating story and insight into life in a defeated, post-war Germany.

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Takes you to the history of the time

Reviewed in Australia on 12 June 2020

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I read the ist book then the third this second book fills in the gaps I enjoyed them & the history of the times.
Brian C.

Reviewed in Australia on 5 March 2019

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If you are a Rademacher fan and have endurance may be worth a read. If you enjoy historical crime fiction think twice.

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B M Rutherford

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2023

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2nd in the inspector Stave series, equally as gripping as the first and looking forward to starting the third instalment. Your taken back to post war Germany and how the population of Hamburg endeavour to cope with the aftermath of defeat. Life goes on and crimes continue to be committed, Stave has his work cut out to solve the mystery.

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Blue in Washington (Barry Ballow)

Surviving in Post WWII Germany

Reviewed in the United States on 6 July 2021

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This is the second book in Inspector Frank Stave series set in 1947 Hamburg. While it is a classical police procedural, it is more the story of the struggles of the protagonist (and secondary characters) to carve some kind of normalcy out of the ruins of postwar Germany. The main character--Frank Stave--works at solving the murder of a orphaned teenager--while trying to build a romantic relationship with a refugee woman and reconstruct a paternal connection with his estranged son, who has just been released from a Soviet prison camp.

Author Rademacher is especially skilled at giving the reader a clear idea of what the privations of life were for the average German citizens as the biggest losers of the war. The conclusion of the procedural comes as a bit of a surprise and a lot of loose ends are left dangling to be taken up in the sequel to follow.

This is a much better than average mystery series that gives a vivid view of what happened to the vanquished after the war and what the physical realities were for all Europeans in the first few years that followed V-E Day. Written in German, the translation is superb.

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Aunt Peggy

What's with italicized "eyes"??

Reviewed in the United States on 3 December 2022

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I shouldn't be reviewing yet as I'm only about 25% through the book, but I don't know where else to put this. There is something off with the editing or proof-reading of this Kindle edition. Why is the word "eyes" in italics every time it appears in the story? It's distracting and stops the flow for no reason at all.

John Hopper

sequel a bit disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2021

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This is the second in the author's murder mystery trilogy set in the ruins of post-WWII Hamburg, featuring Chief Inspector Stave. I loved the first novel in this series, but wasn't so keen on this. The reason for the horrible murders of a number of youngsters didn't seem plausible and the endless details of the complicated smuggling plot I found frankly rather dull. Stave has an interesting backdrop - an anti-Nazi whose view of the Allied liberators is tempered with the tragic loss of his wife Margarethe in a British bombing raid, and whose son Karl was an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth who ended up in the Gulag. In trying to lay hands on the perpetrator of the murders, an exasperated public prosecutor Ehrlich remarks ruefully that "not so long ago it was less of an administrative task to annihilate an entire race than it is now to bring one man to trial". I was waiting for a twist at the end when Stave was chasing the then unidentified culprit, but there was none. Overall, I found this somewhat disappointing compared to The Murderer in Ruins.

CJC

Beautifully written but a disappointing ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2021

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This is a beautifully written, evocative book with some outstanding moments. The story is set in post War Hamburg and the atmosphere of fear and chaos and the struggle to survive is movingly portrayed . The relationship between the central character, a devoted German detective , and his war-damaged son is wonderfully observed and the exploration of their tense reunion and fractured lives is a highlight of the book . Disappointingly, the storyline is a weak context to develop such fascinating characters and the plot meanders ,without much purpose, to an anti climactic and rather stunted denouement. There’s an epic story to be told based within this richly populated terrain but the book gets lost in the rather pedestrian plot that stunts the development of the characters and their impossibly brutal experiences.

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