From Ferdinand von Schirach, one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, comes a jolting debut collection of short stories that daringly brings to light the motivations stirring within the criminal mind. By turns witty and sorrowful, ...

On a sweltering day in August, a small town drunkenly celebrates its six-hundredth anniversary with a funfair when an anonymous tip leads police to find a young woman brutally beaten, raped, and thrown under the floorboards of the very stage on wh...

Crimes, bad decisions, accidents and breaking points; acts of savagery, betrayal and self-sacrifice. In these stories Ferdinand von Schirach, one of Germany's most prominent defence lawyers, presents the case for human fallibility. Calmly, rationa...

Ferdinand von Schirach, one of Germany's most prominent defence lawyers, is also a master storyteller. His characters, in all their unpredictability, are wonderfully alive. Their indelible experiences challenge us to question the nature of guilt a...