Ice Cold

by Andrea Maria Schenkel

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Pub Date Jun 02 2015 | Archive Date Feb 29 2016

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Andrea Maria Schenkel's second novel Ice Cold recreates Munich, Germany in the 1930s to revisit a terrible crime, and offers thrilling crime fiction that draws on historical events. Ice Cold, like The Murder Farm, is told through several voices and documentation, including interrogation logs, witness statements, and the murderer's own internal monologue.
Munich in the late 1930s-the first years of fascism and the last before the war-is a dangerous place. Kathie is desperate to leave her sheltered village life and sets out for the city, determined that she'll get by, one way or another. She is dark-haired, buxom and pretty, like the women who recently disappeared without a trace.
Young women are being found around Munich, abused and murdered. Josef Kalteis has been arrested, but is he really responsible for all those misdeeds? Did they execute the wrong one while the murderer is still on the loose?
Lost somewhere in between her naive search for luck and existential concerns, occasional prostitution and the desire for true love, Kathie is in grave danger.

Andrea Maria Schenkel's second novel Ice Cold recreates Munich, Germany in the 1930s to revisit a terrible crime, and offers thrilling crime fiction that draws on historical events. Ice Cold, like...

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Rosemary S, Librarian

In the 1930’s Munich was a dangerous place for young women. Kathie doesn’t care, she’s young and attractive and wants to leave small town life for the excitement of the big city. But all through the city, young women like Kathie have disappeared and only some have been found – murdered. A man has been caught and executed for the crimes, but did the police get the right man? Intrigued by the stories of the lost girls, Kathie explores Munich, looking for the truth and hoping to find true love along the way. But she’s not courting love, she’s courting death.

Based on true events this is a very different look into 1930’s Germany. A story about growing up and the loss of innocence

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Christine E, Reviewer

3.5 Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley
Andrea Maria Schenkel is Germany’s answer to Britain’s Ruth Rendell.
Can I end the review now, I mean what more do you need to know?
Schenkel’s novel deals with a sexual murderer during the late Weimer period. (If you have read Maria Tatar’s Lustmord, you should check this book out). Told in a variety of voices, the book is as compelling as Rendell at her best.
At one level the book is a psychological study of a killer, at another level it is a study of a girl wanting more, and at a third level it is a look at those who are either killed or those who are left behind. The reader is placed in the position of listening investigator. While at the beginning, it almost seems too multi-perspective but as the reader gets use to the format, as the format evens out, whichever it is becomes the only way to tell this story.
And it is grippingly told.
Schenkel aptly deals with the differing perspectives without making any one character too much of a dislikable idiot or too much an unbelievable stellar of perfection. The only change to the pattern is the reader’s interaction with the murderer. With that character Schenkel walks the fine line of presenting the character while not justifying his behavior. She walks this line very well, and the passages of the book involving this character work.
It’s not your average murder mystery that’s for show.