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Nele Neuhaus's The Ice Queen is a character- and plot-driven mystery about revenge, power, and long-forgotten and covered up secrets from a time in German history that still affects the present.

The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in…

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1 author picked Ice Queen as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love a good detective story, and this is a great detective story. Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are detectives in the Hofheim regional police department near Frankfurt, Germany.

Their case begins with the murder of a Holocaust survivor. But the autopsy reveals a startling fact, and Pia and Oliver find themselves trying to untangle a web of deceit and revenge dating back to the end of the Second World War. 

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