Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Ice Queen
The Ice Queen: A Novel | Nele Neuhaus
4 posts | 6 read | 5 to read
The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arma blood type marker once used by Hitler's SS. Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a riddle. Was the old man not Jewish after all? Who was he, really? Two more, similar murders happenone of a wheelchair-bound old lady in a nursing home, and one of a man with a cellar filled with Nazi paraphernaliaand slowly the connections between the victims becomes evident: All of them were lifelong friends with Vera von Kaltensee, baroness, well-respected philanthropist, and head of an old, rich family that she rules with an iron fist. Pia and Oliver follow the trail, which leads them all the way back to the end of World War II and the area of Poland that then belonged to East Prussia. No one is who they claim to be, and things only begin to make sense when the two investigators realize what the bloody number stands for, and uncover an old diary and an eyewitness who is finally willing to come forward. Nele Neuhaus's The Ice Queen is a character- and plot-driven mystery about revenge, power, and long-forgotten and covered up secrets from a time in German history that still affects the present.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Deborah42
The Ice Queen: A Novel | Nele Neuhaus
post image
Pickpick

As a girl, she made a terrible wish and her mother never came home. As a lonely woman, her heart was frozen and she made another wish—to be struck by lightning. That wish comes true as well, but the aftermath leads her down a path she could never have anticipated, to a man who might have the power to melt her cold heart.

A beautiful story of connection and redemption that reads like a fairytale.

review
bookwrm526
The Ice Queen: A Novel | Nele Neuhaus
post image
Mehso-so

This was my #LetterI for #LitsyAtoZ. An interesting mystery/thriller, but the plot was a little TOO far out there for me! I do like the detectives in this series and will probably read more of them, but this one just didn‘t click for me.

review
balletbookworm
The Ice Queen: A Novel | Nele Neuhaus
post image
Pickpick

A very intricate, intelligent mystery filled with old secrets, hatred, and revenge. I really enjoyed the make-up of the K11 team and that Kirchhoff and Bodenstein are not stock loner detectives. As an American, I was really interested in the representations of old Germany with the shadows of the Third Reich in the background and how that played into class prejudices and relationships. Definitely going to read more.

balletbookworm Edit to add: I was also RELIEVED to finally read a contemporary mystery that did not center solely on violence, specifically sexual violence, toward women. There are bits around the edges but that is not the sole driving point or object of the murders. 8y
34 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
dylanisreading
The Ice Queen: A Novel | Nele Neuhaus
post image

Can't get enough of mystery right now. Thanks Get Booked and @bookriot for the rec. Bosch is in the background. 😁

5 likes1 stack add