The sinner / Petra Hammesfahr ; translated from the German by John Brownjohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammesfahr, Petra.

Standardized Title:

Sünderin English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Women murderers--Psychology--Fiction.

Women murderers.

Women murderers--Psychology.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

338 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2007.

Summary:

"In this intelligent novel Hammesfahr has etched with precision the thoughts of a woman on the edge of madness."-Der Spiegel

Cora Bender killed a man. But why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body? For the local police it was an open-and-shut case. Cora confessed; there was no shortage of proof or witnesses. But Police Commissioner Rudolf Grovian refused to close the file and began his own maverick investigation. So begins the slow unraveling of Cora's past, a harrowing descent into a woman's private hell.

Hailed as Germany's Patricia Highsmith, Petra Hammesfahr has written a dark, spellbinding novel. At the top of the bestseller list, The Sinner has been reprinted sixteen times and sold over 760,000 copies at home. Translated into eleven languages, this is the first Hammesfahr title published in English.

Notes:

Translated from the German.

"First published in German as Die Sünderin by Wunderlich, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1999"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

9781904738251

1904738257

OCLC:

124983177