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The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel – Review
The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel
No TagThe Murder Farm is a very short novel about a horrendous crime, the story allowed to unfold in short chapters which each present a (sometimes overlapping) sliver of background. The book is set in a small German community in the 1950s. The Danners have an out-of-the-way farm, and it is there that the whole family is slaughtered: the father and mother, daughter, two young grandchildren, and a maidservant.
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