The Rhine Manuscripts · Volume 1 of 3
Die Stille von Eisenwald
David Johann Karl
Forensic psychologist Dr. Matthias Brenner returns to Eisenwald, deep in the Bavarian forest, to settle his dead father's estate. Fifteen years since he left. He planned to stay a week.
Within days, a local teenager vanishes. The circumstances mirror unsolved disappearances from Matthias's childhood. Cases his father, the former police chief, investigated obsessively until his death. Encrypted journals. Hidden files. A conspiracy reaching into regional government. The forest keeps secrets older and darker than Matthias imagined. Someone will kill to keep them buried. More victims disappear. The truth about Eisenwald will shatter everything he believed about his father, his past, and himself."