Ort der Zuflucht

Crime in the Forgotten – the new major novel by Stefanie Gercke. The German Nina grows up in South Africa. At twenty, she is attacked by a man. She leaves Africa and goes to Germany. The traumatic experience is banished from her consciousness due to partial amnesia. A tragedy forces her to return ten years later. Her beloved father urgently needs a kidney, and she is ruled out as a donor. But he reveals a secret to her: he once had an affair in South Africa that resulted in another child. Nina overcomes her fear and sets out on a search. Piece by piece, her memories of the horrors of that time return. Too late, she realizes the danger she is in.