Non-Fiction Autumn 2021

When your friendly neighbour is supposedly on holiday, but actually lying encased in cement under the garage; when a little girl suddenly disappears without a trace from her parents' farm – cases...

A man is sentenced to life for murdering his wealthy aunt – but the investigation's files reveal that there's considerable evidence to suggest that he's innocent. The death of a vivacious woman i...

Bartholomäus Grill, the Zeit and Spiegel's legendary Africa correspondent, assesses the continent's position today, and asks what its future has in store. Despite poverty and rampant corruption, ...

A few years ago, Hasnain Kazim started pretending to be a caliph. It was his not entirely serious response to people's constant fear of the 'Islamification of the West', as well as accusations le...

It's June 2005. In the Delmenhorst clinic, the ICU night shift has just started. The nurse Niels Högel enters the room of a comatose patient and gives him an unprescribed injection. Shortly after...

An idyllic village in Upper Bavaria, 1995. Shortly before Christmas, a brutal murder is committed: four people die in a murder-suicide, and the case is closed after the police determine that the ...

Is there anything women aren't supposed to be these days? Friend, mother, partner, businesswoman, lover, top athlete, culture vulture, beauty, housewife, queen of multitasking, cab driver, coach ...