This is the second book by Natasha Vale and is another historical thriller, this time focusing on the Hinterkaifeck murders. This is a story based on true events but taking creative liberties,such as Cäzilia the mother dying from illness and not including Viktoria's daughter also named Cäzilia so you only have Andreas, Viktoria and her son Josef and a unnamed maid as victims in the murders, it's a slow burn as we watch as Viktoria and Andreas become isolated from the village amid rumors of indecent behaviour, which leads to a trial and a sentence for father and daughter. Honestly it felt like they got unfairly treated as they wasn't any hard proof just hearsay, also I feel people didn't like Andreas as he is a hard and unlikeable man who had made himself a few enemies and Viktoria is just unfortunate victim of village gossip all the while grieving her husband Karl who was lost in the war and no body to buried, but she doesn't help quell the rumours of impropriety when she gives birth to Josef, is the child a product of a indecent relationship between father and daughter or a dallance not long after the trial with neighbour Lorenz Schlittenbauer.We also get the POV of a wounded man with amnesia in a hospital and I guess the identity of him pretty early on, he doesn't remember who he is but does remember the name Hinterkaifeck, slowly he gets bits and pieces such as seeing a woman but her is obscured. These two POVs will merged and lead to murder and a mystery that is still unsolved. I didn't enjoyed this one as much as The Silent Widow, I like it but maybe it was a bit too slow in the build up but otherwise it was good so that's why I rated it as such.
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