First book for Bout of Books 10.0 Readathon. The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel. (Random House. June 3, 2014) First published in Germany to critical acclaim in 2009, The Murder Farm is a crime novel of a multiple murder taking place at a remote Austrian farmhouse in the years following WWII...
Ms. Schenkel models The Murder Farm as a traditional detective story. In much the same way as detectives must piece together various fragments of evidence to arrive at a provable conclusion, each shift in the narrator unveils another small image of the true happenings on the Danner farm, Similarly, ...