Novità: le ultime uscite

Hanau, 19. Februar 2020: Ein Rechtsextremist erschießt an mehreren Tatorten neun Menschen aus rassistischen Motiven, weitere werden schwer verletzt. Unter ihnen der damals 23-jährige Said Etris Hashemi und sein 21-jähriger Bruder Said Nesar, sowie weitere Freunde. Etris wird am Hals getroffen, überlebt nur knapp. Sein Bruder stirbt vor Ort, jede Hilfe kommt zu spät. Wenige Sekunden, die alles verändern – nicht nur im Leben der Betroffenen, sondern gesamtgesellschaftlich.

While doing research for his ninth-grade civics class in 1976, Mike Marshall found an article in Time magazine about William Moore, a thirty-five-year-old postman from Binghamton, New York. In 1963, Moore arrived at the Chattanooga bus station from Washington, DC, where he strapped on his protest signs. He planned to walk to the governor's mansion in Jackson, Mississippi, and hand-deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett. On the third day of his walk as he pushed his cart through Keener, Alabama, he saw a car parked under a walnut tree, its headlights and motor off.

The Blood Countess is an ambitious, sweeping investigation into the singularly fascinating case of Elizabeth Báthory, a woman who, until now, has been known as "the Western World’s most prolific female murderer.” If The Dark Queens is about the systemic erasure of powerful women, then The Blood Countess is about the culturally sanctioned, coordinated smearing of one, how it happens and why, which leads to even bigger questions: how do we construct our personal and cultural realities? How do we parse the truth?

Nombreux sont les meurtres dont le coupable se trouve finalement être un parent, un frère, une tante... Au cœur du drame, la jalousie, la colère, l'argent ou le poison lent d'un lourd secret.