Self’s Murder – Bernhard Schlink

Self’s Murder by author Bernhard Schlink poses one last case for his seventy something sleuth. With many tantalising twists and turns Gerhard Self follows the money to East Germany where he battles Nazi youth and closes in on a money laundering ring with connections to the Russian mafia.

After a chance encounter with the owner of a prestigious private bank, the now septuagenarian detective is enlisted to delve into the institution’s history, apparently in the name of a book to commemorate the bank’s foundation. But his quest to discover the identity of a sleeping partner from several decades before throws up far more questions than answers.

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As it becomes clear that the sleeping partner is in no way the most mysterious aspect of the bank’s history, Self begins to suspect his mission may have been but a ruse to lure him into the shady world of the bank’s enigmatic masters – a certain Herr Welker and his steely Russian foster brother Samarin. Trying in vain to extricate himself and his increasingly shaky heart from the web of deceit – and to work out who really is the baddie of the piece – Self is thrown headlong into a tale of money-laundering, murder and mafiosi. But who is blackmailing whom? And did Welker’s wife really die in a tragic accident?g

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