Dirk Kurbjuweit

I had always believed my father capable of a massacre. Whenever I heard on the news that there had been a killing spree, I would hold my breath, unable to relax until it was clear that it couldn't have been him. That's paranoid, I know, but it's inevitable if you grew up the way I did. Randolph insists he had...

Hanover, 1923. Boys are vanishing, one after another, without a trace. At first, police suspect political motivations—perhaps the missing boys are communists, defecting to the newly formed USSR, or victims of the rising Nazi Party. Soon, however, Inspector Robert Lahnstein begins to believe even more sinister forces are at play: is a killer at work? Can Lahnstein track down the...

We didn't want to be like twins—we wanted to be twins. We wanted to be absolutely identical. But because we hadn't been born twins, we had to make ourselves the same—and part of that, of course, was having to go through all our most important experiences together. A classic coming-of-age story about friendship, first love and growing up. Rowing partners...