THE PALE CRIMINAL

By Philip Kerr

Synopsis

Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have been found dead, and their gruesome deaths recall ritual killings. Bernie Gunther is reluctant when he is asked to rejoin the Berlin police in order to track down the murderer. But as Bernie gets closer to the truth, he realises that at the heart of this case is much more than one lone madman - in fact, there is a conspiracy at work more chilling than he could ever have imagined.

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Narrator	Michael Rabin
Length	9hrs
Catalogue No.	14294
Publisher	Penguin; 2015

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