German crime author petra hammesfahr penned the 1999 novel on which the sinner is based, and for the most part the central mysteries. The sinner by petra hammesfahr translated by john brownjohn fulfils its early promise. One afternoon cora, an apparently ordinary young woman, goes for a picnic by the lake with her husband and little boy. The dynamics between susanne and naida were strong. After finishing this book, i now want to check out all the rest of her novels. So begins the slow unraveling of coras past, a harrowing descent into a womans private hell. On a sunny sunday afternoon in the park a woman, cora bender, stabs a man in front of her family and his friends.
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