Nele Neuhaus

A woman dies in her burning villa in the Taunus Mountains. A contractor hangs upside down in the shell of a Frankfurt high-rise, his foot caught in a rope, suffocating in agony. This is a spectacular opening to Nele Neuhaus’s current bestseller, ALLES WIRD ASCHE. And the novel’s title alone doesn’t bode well. What initially looks like a series of accidents turns out to be a brutal and sophisticated string of murders. The investigation leads Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Sander into the circle of the late tech billionaire Patrick Brinkhoff, developer of a groundbreaking AI chatbot. While Pia and Bodenstein are still trying to untangle the dense web of loyalties within Brinkhoff’s software company and family, they stumble upon further murders, all of which are connected to Brinkhoff. Pia and Bodenstein attempt to stop a killer who knows no mercy and plans with cold, calculated precision.