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"If you can guess within forty-eight hours why I have abducted this woman, she will live. If not, she will die."

With this message, a serial killer's perverse game begins. Starvation, ink poured into the lungs, being walled up alive in a concrete pillar...

Munich police officer Sabine Nemez desperately searches for a motive, an explanation, all the more so because her own mother's life is also at stake. Only when a certain Dutchman joins the investigation does the killer's pattern become clear. The psychopath's terrifying inspiration turns out to be an old picture book...


"48" is one of the best thrillers to have appeared on the German market in recent years. It spent many weeks on the bestseller lists and made Andreas Gruber one of the biggest stars of German thriller writing, alongside Sebastian Fitzek.

This multi-layered story, full of puzzles and plot twists, is a masterful psychological thriller that will set fans' hearts racing and keep them in constant suspense right up to the last page.

A feast of crime fiction you can't afford to miss!

"Andreas Gruber has written a thriller that grips the reader with remarkably interesting characters, a dark atmosphere and suspenseful action." (Media-Mania)

"A deep and well-thought-out story." (literatopia.de)

"Essential reading for fans of the genre and proof that German-language authors, too, know how to shred their readers' nerves." (Hitradio rt1)