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DeutschEpisode 1: 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.
Episode 2: 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. The first 5 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 3,5 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).
all-in-production will produce the crime-series together with the German broadcasting station ZDF. ZDF (chief editor Reinhold Elschot) is planning to station the series at the Monday 20:15 slot.
FACTS:
- Genre: Crime (Adaption of bestselling crime series)
- Writer (novel): Nele Neuhaus
- Writer (screenplay): Henriette Piper (Episode 1), Anna Tebbe (Episode 2)
- Publisher: Ullstein/List
- More than 3,5 million sold copies
- 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