THE DEPTH: Sunken (Vol. I)

  • 75,000 copies sold!
  • The third season of the gripping Baltic Sea thriller series by bestselling author Karen Sander.
  • The author's trilogies Der Strand and Der Sturm spent weeks on the Spiegel bestseller list and have sold over 670,000 copies!
  • Rights to 8 titles were sold to Italy (Giunti). 

While searching for the wreck of a Viking ship, amateur divers off the Baltic Sea coast stumble upon a sunken sailboat – with the bodies of an entire family below deck. What first appears to be a tragic accident quickly turns out to be a brutal crime: all four victims were shot. Chief Inspector Tom Engelhardt cuts his vacation short to lead the investigation. As Tom delves into the case on the Darß peninsula, cryptologist Mascha Krieger is called to Anklam to decode a mysterious letter received by a young doctor on the day of her death. The special investigation unit is led –awkwardly – by her stepbrother Holger, complicating her work. Mascha soon uncovers that the doctor’s murder was driven by revenge. But who had a score to settle? Then, two more people are shot dead aboard a motor yacht on the Baltic Sea. The parallels to the family killing are undeniable.
Is Tom and his team hunting a serial killer?

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 11.11.2025
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-01610-3
  • 368 Pages
  • Series: Engelhardt & Krieger ermitteln
  • Author: Karen Sander

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Karen Sander

Karen Sander worked for many years as a translator and taught at the university level before she decided to focus on writing. She lives with her husband in the Rhineland region of Germany and wrote her doctoral dissertation on the writer Val McDermid. Her books have been translated into various languages and have sold over half a million copies in total. She resides in her hometown of Düsseldorf with her husband for six months of the year. During the other six months, she travels the world and writes about it on writearoundtheworld.de.