To Clear the Air

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Life comes to an end, but memory is forever. A moving epitaph for a lost loved one, or the menacing taunt of a vengeful killer When a man is found brutally murdered in the woods, those words come to haunt the small German village of Merklen. And homicide inspector Peter Bohm faces the daunting task of unraveling a mystery with deep and twisted roots-in a town where doors stay closed, people stay silent, and death may have the final word. But the case is just one more uphill battle for Bohm, who's already grappling with a son's death and a marriage on the edge. When a second grisly murder occurs and the same sinister death notice appears, fear spreads that a killer thirsting for justice will continue to spill bad blood. Now, for Bohm and his team of detectives, the only way forward may be back-decades into the past, where a horrific secret was buried...but will no longer lie silent.

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Mechtild Borrmann grew up in the Lower Rhine region of Germany, close to the Dutch border, and has lived in Bielefeld since 1983. She spent the first fifteen years of her career in a wide variety of teaching-related roles, followed by a year and a half in Corsica, before opening a restaurant in the center of Bielefeld. She has been a full-time writer since 2001, and To Clear the Air was her first novel. Silence, her third, won the Deutscher Krimi Preis in 2012 for best crime novel and was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize.