In a routine operation, Chief Inspector Frank Stave is shot down. He survives, but transfers from the murder commission to the office combatting the black market.

There, Stave is confronted with an enigmatic case: Trummerfrau, women helping to clear rubble from Hamburg's bombed streets, discover works of art from the Weimar period - right next to a unidentified corpse.

Shortly afterwards, mysterious banknotes whose existence disturbs the Allies' secret plans begin to pop up on the black market. The Supervisor soon discovers strange parallels between the two cases. With the introduction of a new currency, Stave thinks he is on the brink of a solution. But the truth is dangerous, and not just for him.

The Forger Reviews

It's 1948. Chief Inspector Frank Stave is sick of his corrupt and lazy colleagues in the Hamburg murder squad, but his transfer to the anti-black market team doesn't make his cases any less complicated or dangerous. Corpses, art works and more are found in the rubble of the bomb-ruined city, and the imposition of a new currency presents lucrative opportunities for the criminally-minded. All in all, another excellent procedural, acutely evocative of a unique time and place.

* The Sunday Times *

About Cay Rademacher

Cay Rademacher was born in 1965 and studied Anglo-American history, ancient history, and philosophy in Cologne and Washington. He has been an editor at Geo since 1999, and was instrumental in setting up renowned history magazine Geo-Epoche. The Murderer in Ruins is the first novel in the Inspector Stave series;The Wolf Murderer and The Forger have also been published by Arcadia Books. He now lives in France with his wife and children, where his new crime series is set.

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Sku

GOR009398229

ISBN 13

9781911350323

ISBN 10

1911350323

Title

The Forger by Cay Rademacher

Author

Cay Rademacher

Series

Inspector Frank Stave

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Arcadia Books

Year published

20180816

Number of pages

300

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