by Petra Hammesfahr · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143132851
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«The Sinner» is the psychological thriller by Petra Hammesfahr, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (400 pages, in English).
On a summer afternoon by a lake, Cora Bender, a young mother, stabs a stranger for no apparent reason. Despite her quick confession, a detective reopens the case and unravels Cora's past in a descent into a labyrinth of secrets and hidden traumas. The dark, absorbing narrative forces doubt on every certainty.
2017 «Media tie-in» edition, with English translation by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. Originally published in German as «Die Sünderin» in 1999; nominated for the Friedrich-Glauser Prize in 2000.
For readers of psychological thrillers and for those who discovered the story through the television series starring Jessica Biel.
Petra Hammesfahr is a German crime writer. She has won several awards, including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and the Rhineland Literary Prize.
