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'Devastating and fascinating' New York Times

'Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose' Observer

A group of respectable family men are charged with the brutal murder of a teenager.

A promising student gets caught up in a sadistic schoolboy gang.

A couple are bound together by the events of one bloody night.

Where do you draw the line between good and evil?

In Guilt, people commit violent, extraordinary acts; some are convicted in a court of law, others are not. But our narrator, a nameless lawyer, knows that this is never the whole story.

Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach's eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, the stories in Guilt blur fiction and truth, compelling us to question the difference between guilt and justice, innocence and complicity.

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Ferdinand von Schirach

Ferdinand von Schirach

Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964, and has worked as a defence lawyer for twenty years. He published his first book at the age of 45 and has since published various short stories, novels, essays and plays. Ferdinand von Schirach's books have been translated into more than 40 languages, and have sold millions of copies worldwide. He lives in Berlin.

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