The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr

An apparently inexplicable murder hides a troubled personal history

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During an ordinary outing beside a lake, Cora Bender suddenly attacks and kills a man in full view of her family and other witnesses. The act seems impossible to reconcile with the life she has been living, and her own explanation offers little clarity. A police investigation begins to uncover gaps, contradictions, and memories that make the apparent simplicity of the crime increasingly misleading. Petra Hammesfahr builds a psychological mystery around motive, moving beneath the question of who committed the murder to examine why it happened. The Sinner follows the gradual exposure of a woman’s past, where family relationships and experiences she has struggled to understand may provide the key to a public act that everyone first sees as senseless.