Children of Wrath

Paul Grossman

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Willi Kraus, the celebrated WWI and detective, returns in this prequel story about how he became the most famous Jewish Detective in Germany in the days of the Weimar Republic
 

In Children of Wrath Willi Kraus tackles the case of the Kinderfresser, the vicious Child-Eater of Berlin.  Turning the clock back two years from The Sleepwalkers, the story starts out in the fall of 1929, the last days of prosperity.  Berlin is deep in the throes of a giddy rush to forget its troubled past.  But the same day the stock market crashes in New York, the dark underside of the German capital flushes to the surface in the form of a burlap sack spewed by floodwaters from the city sewer system.  When Willi is called to investigate and discovers the sack is full of children’s bones with teeth marks on them--and a bible with a single phrase circled in red: children of wrath--he fears he’s run into “something darker than he’s ever known.”

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BERLIN
OCTOBER 1929
 

“I’ll teach you the meaning of respect—” The schoolmarm’s whip sent shivers up Willi’s legs. “Drop those drawers.”
Below, the knickers-clad boys trembled as their instructor approached in her shiny black boots. “Bend over.” She snapped the rawhide. What choice was there but to obey, to do whatever she wanted? “This is for your own good.” Her strong white arm rose.

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Children of Wrath
Paul Grossman

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St. Martin's Press
February 2012
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ISBN: 9780312601911
ISBN10: 0312601913
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 336 pages
$25.99
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