The Line between Day and Night

A fast-moving and emotionally charged trip through the chaos of contemporary life  

During a police operation Tommy, a successful drug squad detective, kills an innocent child. Afterwards, nothing is the same. The young policeman no longer sees the point of his job, his long-term relationship breaks up, he goes further and further off the rails and the only person he can turn to is Csaba, a drug dealer – until ultimately Tommy is suspended. Not until he recovers a young woman’s dead body at a techno party in Görlitzer Park, does Tommy find something that moves and motivates him: Who was this woman? Why was she wearing a wedding dress? And what is the significance of the mysterious tattoo on her back?   In his third novel, Roland Schimmelpfennig takes us on a journey through all the fascinating facets of vibrant contemporary Berlin. This pulsating, cosmopolitan city is also a place lost between day and night – a city full of hidden depths.

»Sometimes there would be these rare evenings when I was sober and clear-headed, evenings when I could be certain of putting one step ahead of another, even though everything in my life had fallen apart.«
from: The Line between Day and Night