Hamburg Noir Author Forename:Jan in this northern backwater

in this northern backwater

which hides unfathomable treasure and a secret that the kings of France have been handing down since the time of Julius Caesar

But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife

including one that stretches back

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Hamburg Noir Author Forename:Jan in this northern backwaterFrom the Introduciton by Jan Karsten: The many facets of Hamburg's ambivalent identity, forged over centuries, are on full display in the stories collected in this anthology. This book assembles some of the city's finest and best known writers, luminaries in the world of crime fiction and German literature, featuring multiple recipients of the German Crime Fiction Award and the Hubert Fichte Prize, among others. Relative newcomers rub shoulders with