In 'The Beggar Girl', the first volume of her gripping historical crime series, Helene Winter presents a fascinating detective: Henriette Arendt, known as Sister Henny, the real-life first female police assistant in Germany, who becomes a successful private investigator. Protecting children is her top priority, a task she pursues with courage, determination, and keen investigative skills. Stuttgart, 1906: A young girl named Sophie, forced into begging, desperately places all her hope in Sister Henny. The energetic police assistant is known for her concern for the most vulnerable members of society, but struggles with the indifference of her superiors. Only in the assertive Mitzi, who was only saved from being branded a prostitute by Henny's forceful intervention, does she find an ally. When Mitzi discovers an apartment where neglected-looking children repeatedly appear, Henny suspects child trafficking and embarks on a dangerous plan to expose the ringleaders. Anyone who wants to learn more about courageous women of history, whose achievements have all too often been forgotten, can rediscover an impressive woman in this exciting and atmospheric historical crime novel: Henriette Arendt, whose extraordinary life was the inspiration for this new historical crime series by Helene Winter. Like the historical Henriette Arendt, Helene Winter's fictional character Sister Henny cannot stand idly by when children need help. She refuses to be deterred by whether her (male) superiors approve or not. And so Henny soon finds herself fighting not only against the criminals behind Sophie's fate, but also against the bitter resistance of authorities, church representatives, and city officials, for whom this courageous woman, who holds a mirror up to them with her outspokenness, is a thorn in their side. Disturbingly authentic and darkly atmospheric – in 'The Beggar Girl', Helen Winter takes her readers into the gloomy streets and dilapidated backyards of early 20th-century Stuttgart. We are captivated by the fate of the courageous Sophie and her desperate attempts to contact Sister Henny – her last hope. And we witness, with fascination, how Sister Henny, a police assistant, becomes the private detective Henriette Arendt. A woman with a mission! New product