pickE Germany75, a fascinating period which leads to an enjoyable crime story in which karin muller, police officer with a troubled personal life is manipulated by a stasi officer to investigate the murder of a teenage girl escaping from West to east. I liked the paranoia, the characters and the history(afterword is interesting) so whilst a bit chaotic at the end i will definitely be rdg on but also rewatching The lives of others.
so-soAlthough an interesting storyline, I felt as if the characters weren‘t fully developed. You couldn‘t imagine how the characters were feeling through the description and the words, but rather, you were simply told how the characters felt. The storyline could have been better developed, as the setting and the timeline was an interesting time in history. It could have been used as a great murder/thriller, however, there needed to be less explanation.
so-soThe first third of this book would have been a solid thumbs up, but the characters and the choices they made slowly ,slowly strained credulity to the point that the GREAT setting in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall just wasn't enough to keep the thumb up. The author tells the reader how characters feel rather than making the reader believe them.
pickExcellent read. Right from the moment I started I couldn't put this book down. 1970s East Germany and a small team of police are hunting a murderer. The Stasi are also involved and it's hard to work out which side some characters are on. Karin the detective leading the investigation is easily likeable, couple other characters you will loathe!
Stasi Child: A Chilling Cold War Thriller | 
