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The Collini Case
  • Published: 2 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780718159221
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

The Collini Case




A spellbinding German court room drama, written by one of Europe's most successful thriller writers

A murder. A murderer. No motive.

Fabrizio Collini is a hard working, quiet and respectable man. Until the day he visits one of Berlin's most luxurious hotels and kills an innocent man in cold blood.

Young attorney Caspar Leinen takes the case. Getting Collini a not-guilty verdict would make his name. But far too late he discovers that he knows Collini's victim.

Leinen is caught in a professional and personal dilemma. Collini admits the murder but won't say why he did it, forcing Leinen to defend a man who won't defend himself.

And worse, a close friend, and relation of the victim, insists that he give up the case.

His reputation, his career and this friendship are all at risk.

But then he makes a discovery that goes way beyond his own concerns and exposes a terrible and deadly truth at the heart of German justice . . .

  • Published: 2 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780718159221
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

About the author

Ferdinand von Schirach

Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964. Today he works as one of Germany's most prominent defence lawyers in Berlin. His short story collections Crime and Guilt became instant bestsellers in Germany and are translated in over thirty territories.

Praise for The Collini Case

A magnificent storyteller

Der Spiegel

A murder trial full of political explosiveness: thrilling, clever, staggering

Focus

Terrific

Elle

Ferdinand von Schirach brilliantly draws you under his spell

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