Bad Wolf
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I offer my thanks to Ulla Fröhling for her courageous and important book. I hope that with this novel I can make a small contribution to continuing the discussion of this taboo topic.
Many wonderful people have supported me during the writing of this book, encouraging me and showing me the right path whenever I got stuck. Here I have to mention especially Susanne Hecker and my dear writer colleague Steffi von Wolff.
I thank my parents, Dr. Bernward and Carola Löwenberg, and my wonderful sisters, Claudia Cohen and Camilla Altvater, as well as my niece, Caroline Cohen, for their support, and for patiently reading drafts of the manuscript and offering very helpful suggestions. They are the best family anyone could wish for.
A big thank-you to Margrit Osterwold and once again to Steffi. You made Hamburg into a second home for me.
I thank Catrin Runge, Gaby Pohl, Simone Schreiber, Ewald Jacobi, Vanessa Müller-Raidt, Iska Peller, Frank Wagner, Susanne Trouet, Andrea Wildgruber, Anke Demmig, Anne Pfenninger, Beate Caglar, Claudia Gnass, and Claudia Herrmann. Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur. Thank you for your friendship.
Special thanks to Detective Superintendent Andrea Rupp for giving the book a careful early reading and for offering helpful remarks with regard to the work of the Criminal Police.
A big thank-you goes out to the wonderful staff at Ullstein Verlag for their trust and support. In particular, I’d like to thank my excellent editors, Marion Vazquez and Kristine Kress, who with tact and encouragement have made a book emerge from an initial idea.
Many thanks to Steven T. Murray and his wife, Tiina, for yet another fantastic and sensitive translation! Thanks also to my U.S. publisher, St. Martin’s Press, and to PanMacmillan in the UK, and to my editors at both publishers, Daniela Rapp and Trisha Jackson.
I also thank all my readers for liking my books. That makes me happy.
And finally, I thank from the bottom of my heart a very special person. Matthias, I have arrived. So it should be; so it shall remain.
Nele Neuhaus, August 2012
About the Author
NELE NEUHAUS is the author of Snow White Must Die. With close to five million copies of her books currently in print, she is one of the most widely read German mystery writers. Neuhaus lives near Frankfurt, Germany.
ALSO BY NELE NEUHAUS
Snow White Must Die
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
BAD WOLF. Copyright © 2012 by Nele Neuhaus. Translation copyright © 2014 by Steven T. Murray. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the print edition as follows:
Neuhaus, Nele.
[Böser Wolf. English]
Bad wolf: a novel / Nele Neuhaus; translated by Steven T. Murray.—First U.S. edition.
pages cm.
Originally published by Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH in Germany under the title Böser Wolf—Title page verso.
ISBN 978-1-250-04399-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-4243-4 (e-book)
I. Murray, Steven T., translator. II. Title.
PT2714.E95B6713 2014
833'.92—dc23
2013032456
e-ISBN 9781466842434
First U.S. Edition: January 2014