THE BEACH: Missing (Vol. I)

  • More than 400,000 copies sold of Vol. I - III.
  • Full of gripping suspense and set on the highly atmospheric peninsula Fischland-Darß-Zingst.

What happened to Lilli Sternberg? One major case, three self-contained thrillers: the gripping Baltic Sea trilogy.

An unlikely pair: Chief Inspector Sebastian Engelhardt and cryptologist Mascha Krieger are thrust together in the investigation.

One day Lilli Sternberg, 19 years old and deaf, vanishes on the way to the beach. The police, led by Chief Inspector Sebastian Engelhardt, waste no time in beginning a comprehensive search of the area — the beach; Sellnitz, the town where Lilli lived with her grandparents; the nearby backcountry — all to no avail. The only clue is Lilli’s last message to a friend: a photograph of a series of seemingly random characters drawn in the sand. Cryptologist Mascha Krieger from the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) joins Engelhardt, but their investigations remain inconclusive. Was Lilli kidnapped, and the photo a message from the perpetrator? Or is it a kind of coded goodbye-message Lilli concocted herself? Is the writing in the sand even connected to her disappearance?

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 13.12.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-00805-4
  • 400 Pages
  • Series: Engelhardt & Krieger ermitteln
  • Author: Karen Sander

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Karen Sander

Karen Sander worked for many years as a translator and taught at the university level before she decided to focus on writing. She lives with her husband in the Rhineland region of Germany and wrote her doctoral dissertation on the writer Val McDermid. Her books have been translated into various languages and have sold over half a million copies in total. She resides in her hometown of Düsseldorf with her husband for six months of the year. During the other six months, she travels the world and writes about it on writearoundtheworld.de.