St. Pauli, 1951: Jazz pianist Martha Kiesler, once the idol of the Swing Youth, persecuted by the Nazis, returns to her old stomping grounds. Her career in New York hasn't gone as she'd dreamed. But gaining a foothold in the war-torn city is difficult; everyone is fighting for survival, and the Nazis are far from gone. At first, she scrapes by as a pianist in a hotel bar. When she runs into an old friend who wants to open a jazz club, she finds a glimmer of hope, and in the mysterious GI Paul, she thinks she's found her dream bassist. But he associates with shady characters and is constantly forced to pawn his bass. Luckily, she also meets the resourceful Blondie, an aspiring fashion designer and unexpected female support. But real estate speculators, drug dealers, and pimps also cross her path, and old adversaries reappear. And the memory of a mysterious death that was directly related to her... biography Robert Brack, born in 1959, lives in Hamburg. In 1993, he was awarded the "Marlowe" prize by the Raymond Chandler Society, and in 1996 he received the "German Crime Fiction Prize." Since 1999, he has also written under the pseudonym Virginia Doyle. Notes: New product