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1975: When Oberleutnant Karin Muller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Berlin Wall, she imagines she's seen it all before. But she soon realizes that this is a death like no other before it - the girl was evidently trying to escape from West Berlin. As a member of the People's Police, Muller's power in East Germany only stretches so far. The Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, assures her the case is closed, all they need to know is the girl's name. Yet they strongly discourage her from asking questions. The evidence doesn't add up, and it soon becomes clear the crime scene has been staged. But this regime does not tolerate curious minds, and it takes Mller too long to realize that the trail she's been following may lead her dangerously close to home ...
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David Young was born near Hull and - after dropping out of a Bristol University science degree - studied Humanities at Bristol Polytechnic specialising in Modern History. Temporary jobs cleaning ferry toilets and driving a butcher's van were followed by a career in journalism with provincial newspapers, a London news agency, and the BBC's international newsrooms where he led news teams for the World Service radio and World TV. David was a student on the inaugural Crime Thriller MA at City University - winning the course prize in 2014 for his debut novel Stasi Child - and now writes full-time in his garden shed. In his spare time, he's a keen supporter of Hull City AFC. Stasi Child is the first of three books in the Oberleutnant Karin Müller series - set in 1970s communist East Germany - bought by the UK arm of Swedish publisher Bonnier by former Quercus CEO Mark Smith. It reached the top 5 bestsellers on Amazon Kindle, was number one bestseller in Amazon's Historical Fiction chart, and has been optioned for TV by Euston Films (Minder, The Sweeney etc) . Translation rights have so far been sold to France.
