Publisher's Synopsis
A remote German village, 1926. A baby has gone missing, and Constable Theodore Hildebrandt and his son, Deputy Klaus, have come to investigate. Initial suspicions lie with the baby's elderly grandmother who, suffering from dementia, must have taken the baby and left it in a shed by accident. Hildebrandt is not sure, however; and when the Jewish shopkeeper Elias Frankel is arrested by a rival policeman and subsequently escapes, his own doubts are mirrored by the village's uncertainty. When Hildebrandt's investigation reveals some unsettling truths, and the lines between rumour and reality become blurred, will the truth ever be unearthed? Once suspicion has taken hold, is anything beyond belief?
