Impressive, capturing short stories, great "clean" writing style.Mein erster von Schirach und bestimmt nicht der letzte. Dies ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die auf wahren Fällen des Strafverteidigers beruhen. Und es tatsächlich eine Sammlung, in der mir jede einzelne Geschichte mindesten...
Jeg har haft denne her lille perle af en bog liggende i ganske lang tid. Den er i sin tid erhvervet via mit gamle arbejde i Arnold Busck i Roskilde. Tror ikke jeg den gang egentlig vidste hvad det var for en bog jeg købte.Men det fandt jeg ud af og den overraskede mig positivt.Den er skrevet i ga...
Munich born Ferdinand von Schirach has been working as a defense lawyer in Berlin for many years. He has based this collection of short stories on some of the most intriguing cases of his practice. The language he uses is clear, here and there he explains some legal terms and procedures. Von Schi...
Brilliant, utterly brilliant. This is an etremely short novel, fewer than 50,000 words, which still has everything – drama, history, poignancy, beautifully-described sex. A newly-qualified German lawyer takes on the defence of a murderer (that's not a secret at all) and then discovers he knew the...
In the opening chapter of this novel, Fabrizio Collini walks into a Berlin hotel posing as a journalist, kills the man he had arranged to meet, and then waits for the police to turn up and arrest him. He admits to the killing but refuses to reveal anything about his motive. His defence is assigne...
A quick read which I don't expect to forget easily. The writing is straightforward: a murder case described from the defending counsel's point of view. It's fact-heavy, but this doesn't detract from the scope of the narrative or the pace of the story. Instead the simplicity of the story heightens...
An interesting account of the murder of a German industrialist that echoes into the past as a young lawyer tries to uncover the motive for it. It's not the outstanding story that the blurbs would have you believe, but it held my attention from start to finish despite the fact that I had a rough i...
Fabrizio Collini has brutally murdered Hans Meyer. Both are elderly men. Collini waits for the police to arrest him and he has nothing to say as to why he has murdered Meyer. Young Caspar Leinen has been selected to be Collini's public defender. However there are several issues with his selection...
The Japanese who had bought The Maja’s Men made those two pictures available for the exhibition. The Polaroid plates, the screens, cables and computer were packed into wooden crates in Eschburg’s Linienstrasse studio and collected by a haulage firm. A week later Eschburg f...
As he did every evening, he had turned off on the way home and driven up the little hill to his old ash tree. He had often sat here as a child in the shadow of the branches, carving figures out of wood and playing hooky. He lowered the window; the days were already getting shorter again and the a...
It was a warm summer afternoon, the windows stood open, and she felt good. They had known each other for two years, both of them were studying economics in Bonn, and they attended the same lectures. She knew he was in love with her.Patrick stroked her back. The book was boring him; he didn’t like...