THE WATER SPRITE’S FURY

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He wants to feel your panic as you die. He is the Water Sprite. And he wants to dance with you…

On her very first day as an intern with the police homicide department, Manuela Sperling has to deal with the brutal murder of a prostitute. The body was found wedged between tree roots in a river; she had been drowned. But the water in the lungs of the body didn’t come from the river in which it was found. And the forensic team finds a grisly message on the stomach of the murdered woman, addressed to Manuela’s boss, Kriminalhauptkommissar Stiffler. Her commitment to solving the case soon leaves her isolated among her colleagues, except for Peter Nielsen, who seems friendly enough. Then another young woman drowns right before Manuela’s eyes. And her boss appears to be losing his mind …

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Wunderlich
  • Release: 17.08.2012
  • ISBN: 978-3-8052-5037-5
  • 416 Pages
  • Author: Andreas Winkelmann

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Andreas Winkelmann

As a child and teenager, Andreas Winkelmann devoured the eerie stories of John Sinclair and Stephen King. This sparked his deep desire to write and instill fear in others. Today, his thrillers are among the hardest-hitting and most-read in the German-speaking world. His books pull readers in from the first line, plunging them into a dark labyrinth with no apparent escape. Winkelmann's stories are grounded in the everyday lives of his audience and told in a stark, realistic style. Fittingly, he writes in the attic of a 400-year-old house near the woods outside Bremen.