"SHADOW BOXER It was only yesterday that Vincent Che Veih from Düsseldorf CID had been standing here. At the grave of a colleague’s niece, the last resting place of 17 year-old Pia who had committed suicide. Now a second body is lying here among the flowers and wreaths. Her body is covered with countless injuries that tell of horrendous suffering over several days, dumped here at the end of stormy night. But why here? Pia and the murdered girl didn’t know each other. And yet, Vincent is sure that there’s some connection between them. He starts reinvestigating an old murder case, and stumbles across a conspiracy involving his own mother, a known Red Army Faction terrorist. Then another young woman goes missing …
• Horst Eckert is the master of the German political thriller; his crime novels have won multiple awards. "
