The voices of the dead call from across the sea – Theodor Storm’s eeriest case so far
Husum, by the North Sea, in the winter of 1843. On a cold night Peter Söt, clerk and friend of the young lawyer and poet Theodor Storm, discovers a corpse in the mud of the harbour. Only the first of a series of murders that will terrorize the city. All victims have some connection to a sect which, over a hundred years ago, had planned to set up a religious state on the island of Nordstrand. When Storm discovers that the sect lives on in secret, he must find out whether the crimes are a late revenge or something even more sinister …
