The Content Reader

Recently, I took a couple of books from a book case in my parents apartment block. I grabbed the book Fallet Collini ( Der Fall Collini, The Collini Case ) by Ferdinand von Schirach. I had never heard about the author, or the book, but the back cover text intrigued me. And what a book. It is seldom that you find a book by chance that turns out to be one of your favourite books, or one of the best you have read.  "Fabrizio Collini is recently retired. He’s a quiet, unassuming man with no indications that he’s capable of hurting anyone. And yet he brutally murders a prominent industrialist in one of Berlin’s most exclusive hotels. Collini ends up in the charge of Caspar Leinen, a rookie defense lawyer eager to launch his career with a not-guilty verdict. Complications soon arise when Collini admits to the murder but refuses to give his motive, much less speak to anyone. As Leinen searches for clues he discovers a personal connection to the victim and unearths a terrible truth at the...