{"product_id":"9781623651688","title":"The Murder Farm","description":"The \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e said of \u003ci\u003eThe Murder Farm\u003c\/i\u003e, \"With only a limited number of ways in which violent death can be investigated, crime writers have to use considerable ingenuity to bring anything fresh to the genre. Andrea Maria Schenkel has done it in her first novel.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first author to achieve a consecutive win of the German Crime Prize, Schenkel has won first place for both \u003ci\u003eThe Murder Farm \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIce Cold\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Murder Farm\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a shock: a whole family has been murdered with a pickaxe. They were old Danner the farmer, an overbearing patriarch; his put-upon devoutly religious wife; and their daughter Barbara Spangler, whose husband Vincenz left her after fathering her daughter little Marianne. She also had a son, two-year-old Josef, the result of her affair with local farmer Georg Hauer after his wife's death from cancer. Hauer himself claimed paternity. Also murdered was the Danners' maidservant, Marie. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An unconventional detective story, \u003ci\u003eThe Murder Farm\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting blend of eyewitness account, third-person narrative, pious diatribes, and incomplete case file that will keep readers guessing. When we leave the narrator, not even he knows the truth, and only the reader is able to reach the shattering conclusion.","brand":"Quercus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172319314160,"sku":"9781623651688","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623651688_p0.jpg?v=1763862958","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623651688","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}