Ferdinand von Schirach`s ”The Collini Case” has been at the top of the German charts since publication and will be loved by all fans of Bernhard Schlink and John le Carre. A murder. A murderer. No motive. For thirty-four years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes Benz. He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of Berlin`s most luxurious hotels and kills an innocent man. Young attorney Caspar Leinen takes the case. Getting Collini a not-guilty verdict would make his name. But too late he discovers that Collini`s victim - an industrialist of some renown - is known to him. Now Leinen is caught in a professional and personal dilemma. Collini admits the murder but won`t say why he did it, forcing Leinen to defend a man who won`t put up a defence. And worse, a close friend and relation of the victim insists that he give up the case. His reputation, his career and this friendship are all at risk. Then he makes a discovery that goes way beyond his own petty concerns and exposes a terrible and deadly truth at the heart of German justice...”The Collini Case” is a masterful court room drama that will have readers on the edge of their seats from start to finish. ”A magnificent storyteller”. (”Der Spiegel”). ”A murder trial full of political explosiveness: thrilling, clever, staggering”. (”Focus”). ”Terrific”. (”Elle”). ”Ferdinand von Schirach brilliantly draws you under his spell”. (”Bunte”). Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964. Today he works as one of Germany`s most prominent defence lawyers in Berlin. His short story collections ”Crime and Guilt” became instant bestsellers in Germany and are translated in over thirty territories.