Book
The sinner
Call Number
- THRILLER HAMM (WSQ)
Publication Information
New York : Penguin Books, 2017.
Physical Description
387 pages ; 21 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
On a sunny summer afternoon by the lake, Cora Bender stabs a man to death. Why? What would cause this quiet, kind young mother to stab a complete stranger in the throat over and over again, in full view of her family and friends? For the local police, it's an open-and-shut case. Cora quickly confesses and there's no shortage of witnesses, but those questions remain unanswered. Haunted by the case, the police commissioner refuses to close the file and begins his own maverick investigation. So begins the slow unraveling of Cora's past, a harrowing descent into a woman's private hell.
Notes
First published in German as Die Sünderin by Wunderlich, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1999.
Adapted into a USA Network television miniseries of the same title in July 2017.