CRIME-NOVELS by Nele Neuhaus

Part 1 – SCHNEEWITTCHEN MUSS STERBEN (Snow White Must Die)

On a rainy November night Rita Cramer is pushed from a bridge in front of a driving car. Soon, police investigators Oliver von Bodenstein und Pia Kirchhoff find a suspect: Manfred Wagner, a former friend of the woman. Both share a dark history. Wagner’s daughter disappeared many years ago and the judge had found Rita Cramer’s son Tobias guilty to be her murderer, sentencing him to 15 years of prison.Now Tobias returns to his home town. The villagers are in uproar and Tobias’ home is covered with slogans. The police officers start to reinvestigate the old case and discover several inconsistencies. Suddenly a young girl goes missing. Now it’s a race against time before revenge turns bloody.

“Snow White must die” is the 4th and most successful part (1 Million sold copies) of Nele Neuhaus’ crime-thriller-series, with the investigators Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein being the main and most important part. During their investigations. With his unbribable sight and her unmistakable instincts, nothing can stop them to combat the blood and thunder. With surprising twists and spectacular thriller elements, Nele Neuhaus knows how to reveal the abysmal depths of humanity hidden behind a pretended idyll.

 

Part 2 – EINE UNBELIEBTE FRAU (An Unpopular Woman)

Hit by a bullet from his own shotgun, the Frankfurt state attorney meets a quick brutal death. At the same time, a young woman is found dead at the bottom of a look-out in the forest. She could not have fallen for she seems too unharmed.Detective chief superintendent Oliver von Bodenstein and his new colleague Pia Kirchhoff agree: The first death was a suicide, the second one was murder. Soon,motives and suspects heap up. But what drove the state attorney to his death?

An unpopular woman is the 1st part of the 6 Nele Neuhaus’ crime-novels published so far. 580.000 copies were sold in Germany (January 2013) and the critics praise the first novel as a successful start of a new crime-series. All of the novels were represented in the bestselling list of the Spiegel online magazine under the categorie of the 15 best sold paperbacks in September 2011. Nele Neuhaus’ crime-novels reached a total paid circulation of 4.2 million (January 2013). By now the rights were sold to 25 different countries (amongst others: Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands, Korea, Russia, Brazil and the United States).

 

Part 3 – MORDSFREUNDE (Murderous Friends)

Oliver von Bodenstein and his colleague Pia Kirchhoff are called to an unusual crime scene: zookeepers have found parts of a corpse in various enclosures of the Opel-Zoo in Kronberg. The police investigations reveal that it is the dismembered corpse of Hans-Ulrich Pauly, a secondary school teacher who was very well liked by his pupils. But the militant eco-activist also had many enemies, numerous of them among the Taunus-elite…

 

Part 4 – TIEFE WUNDEN (Deep Wounds)

Oliver von Bodenstein and his colleague Pia Kirchhoff investigate amongst the highest social circles of the Taunus: Holocaust survivor Josua David Goldberg has been literally executed in his own house. Using the victim’s blood, the murderer wrote down the number “16145” on the hallway mirror. At autopsy, pathologist Henning Kirchhoff discovers remains of a tattoo, which was common for members of the “Waffen-SS”. Other murders with the same pattern take place. Why does someone kill three old people? And what does the mysterious number mean? Every victim was related to the well-known businessman’s widow Vera Kaltensee…

 

Part 5 – WER WIND SÄT (Those Who Sow the Wind)

A night watchman is found dead in the stairway of a wind turbine company in Kelkheim. In addition to that, a dead hamster, serving as a “claim of responsibility”, is placed provocatively on the company owner’s desk. The pathologist Henning Kirchhoff diagnoses an unnatural cause of death as well as severe broken ribs due to a failed reanimation attempt. While Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff investigate amidst the citizens’ initiative „No Wind Turbines in the Taunus“, Bodenstein’s father finds his old friend brutally executed on his farm. Yet Ludwig Hirtreiter, head of the citizens’ initiative, did not only have enemies among the wind power supporters. A severe storm starts to brew over the Taunus.

 

FACTS:

  • Genre: Crime (Adaption of bestselling crime series)
  • Writer (novel): Nele Neuhaus
  • Writer (screenplay): Henriette Piper (Episode 1), Anna Tebbe (Episodes 2, 4 and 5), Julie Fellmann & Anna Tebbe (Episode 3)
  • Publisher: Ullstein/List
  • More than 4.4 million sold copies in Germany
  • All 6 parts are registered in the bestseller register (Spiegel magazine)
  • Snow White must die: 8 weeks the best sold fiction paperback (Amazon)
  • Sold in 25 countries worldwide
  • Snow White must die: Gold Edition because of 1 million sold copies