Therese Mende was able to talk to her daughter before the press pounced on the case. Her lawyers made skillful tactical use of petitions and identified various procedural errors. She died in 2002 at her house in Mallorca, before the case went to trial.
Robert Lubisch did not have the name on his father’s grave changed. In 1999, he donated his entire inheritance to a charitable foundation.
Paul leased the boarding stables to a trainer with a family. He retains a lifelong right to live on the property and now dedicates himself to his vegetable garden.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Born in 1960, Mechtild Borrmann lives in Bielefeld, Germany. She spent her childhood and youth in the lower Rhine region—the setting for her crime stories. She works as a dance and theater instructor, among other professions. She is the author of Morgen ist der Tag nach Gestern (Tomorrow Is the Day After Yesterday, 2007) and Mitten in der Stadt (Right in the City, 2009). The German-language version of Silence (Wer das Schweigen bricht) won the 2012 Deutscher Krimi Prize for best crime novel, and it marks her English debut.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Aubrey Botsford has previously translated Katia Fox’s The Silver Falcon and The Golden Throne, as well as novels by Yasmina Khadra and Enrico Remmert. He lives in London.
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