She missed her little daughter, but at the same time she was afraid of what would happen when Louisa came back home. She’d never felt the responsibility for her child as a burden before, but now she did. It was a burden that she would have to bear all alone. It was her task to protect Louisa and ...
They would find his footprints, but he didn’t worry about that. When he bought the shoes, he’d been extra careful to make sure they were a mass-produced brand, nothing extravagant. He didn’t have to wait long; his target was as punctual on the first day of the holiday as on every other morning. A...
His son Lorenz was turning twenty-five. The night before, Lorenz had partied into the wee hours with his huge circle of friends at a disco whose proprietor he knew from his DJ days, but he wanted to spend Sunday afternoon with his family to celebrate his birthday in a calmer setting. Cosima’s mot...
The euphoria of the day before, when he’d achieved an excellent eleventh-place finish in the “Round the Henninger Tower” bicycle race, had long since dissipated. The grayness of everyday life had reclaimed him, and it coincided with a new homicide investigation. He had been hoping this lull in ac...
Aunque oficialmente era puente, ese viernes, el siguiente al Corpus, el centro aprovechaba para reunirse en claustro. Nada más entrar, a la izquierda, tras una puerta de cristal translúcido, estaba la secretaría, y allí se encontraron a la mitad del cuerpo docente en plena discusión acalorada. &n...
