Germany 1505 Following the death of her mother and her father’s remarriage, five-year-old Katharina is placed in the convent at Brehna. She will never see her father again. Sixty-five miles away, at Erfurt in Thuringia, Martin Luder, a promising...

“A powerful and disturbing study in terrible lies and the human need to believe them. Few readers will close this book unshaken.” ANNIE PROULX   Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience...

East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed...