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    Doomed City
    The Beginning
    Audiobook series2 titles

    Berlin Gothic Series

    Written by Jonas Winner

    Narrated by Mikael Naramore

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    About this series

    The second book in Jonas Winner’s haunting Berlin Gothic series.

    Ten years after the death of patriarch Xavier Bentheim, long-estranged Till Anschütz returns to Berlin for the wedding of the family’s youngest daughter.

    Till carries with him the disturbing memories and macabre secrets surrounding Xavier’s death. And although he doesn’t know it, his return to Berlin has set in motion a sinister plan.

    With Xavier Bentheim’s dark legacy looming over his family’s future, the tunnels beneath Berlin churn with a new evil—one that threatens to bring down not only the Bentheim family, but the entire city.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 27, 2013
    Doomed City
    The Beginning

    Titles in the series (2)

    • 1

      The Beginning
      The Beginning

      The Beginning

      Jonas Winner
      3/5 - 4 ratings
      3/5 - 4 ratings

      Long after the Iron Curtain has crumbled, an invisible wall remains between the good citizens of Berlin and those who dwell in the city’s dark underbelly. And one family—the Bentheims—straddles the line between good and evil. The family has graciously taken in Till Anschütz, a young orphan on the run, and he quickly befriends his new brother, twelve-year-old Max. Together, the boys explore the office where their cold, distant father, Xavier Bentheim, writes his novels. They discover a secret door, an underground lair, gruesome photographs, bizarre films, and horrifying scenes. Is this shadowy world the reason Xavier’s behavior has taken a turn for the vicious—and will they ever be able to escape what they’ve seen? Berlin Police Inspector Konstantin Butz discovers the mutilated corpse of a woman; beside her lies a power drill freshly wrenched from her stomach. This latest in a series of related murders launches Butz on an obsessive search for the killer, but the key could lie hidden with his own girlfriend…Claire Bentheim.

      Long after the Iron Curtain has crumbled, an invisible wall remains between the good citizens of Berlin and those who dwell in the city’s dark underbelly. And one family—the Bentheims—straddles the line between good and evil. The family has graciously taken in Till Anschütz, a young orphan on the run, and he quickly befriends his new brother, twelve-year-old Max. Together, the boys explore the office where their cold, distant father, Xavier Bentheim, writes his novels. They discover a secret door, an underground lair, gruesome photographs, bizarre films, and horrifying scenes. Is this shadowy world the reason Xavier’s behavior has taken a turn for the vicious—and will they ever be able to escape what they’ve seen? Berlin Police Inspector Konstantin Butz discovers the mutilated corpse of a woman; beside her lies a power drill freshly wrenched from her stomach. This latest in a series of related murders launches Butz on an obsessive search for the killer, but the key could lie hidden with his own girlfriend…Claire Bentheim.

    • 2

      Doomed City
      Doomed City

      Doomed City

      Jonas Winner
      2/5
      2/5

      The second book in Jonas Winner’s haunting Berlin Gothic series. Ten years after the death of patriarch Xavier Bentheim, long-estranged Till Anschütz returns to Berlin for the wedding of the family’s youngest daughter. Till carries with him the disturbing memories and macabre secrets surrounding Xavier’s death. And although he doesn’t know it, his return to Berlin has set in motion a sinister plan. With Xavier Bentheim’s dark legacy looming over his family’s future, the tunnels beneath Berlin churn with a new evil—one that threatens to bring down not only the Bentheim family, but the entire city.

      The second book in Jonas Winner’s haunting Berlin Gothic series. Ten years after the death of patriarch Xavier Bentheim, long-estranged Till Anschütz returns to Berlin for the wedding of the family’s youngest daughter. Till carries with him the disturbing memories and macabre secrets surrounding Xavier’s death. And although he doesn’t know it, his return to Berlin has set in motion a sinister plan. With Xavier Bentheim’s dark legacy looming over his family’s future, the tunnels beneath Berlin churn with a new evil—one that threatens to bring down not only the Bentheim family, but the entire city.

    Author

    Jonas Winner

    Born in Berlin in 1966, Jonas Winner lived in Rome and the United States before moving back to his home city to study philosophy. As a reporter and television editor, he shot documentaries and covered cultural affairs. His experience informed his work on screenplays, and several of his detective stories and thrillers have aired throughout Europe. He released his debut novel in 2011, followed by the seven-part Berlin Gothic series, which became one of Germany’s first e-book bestsellers. Winner lives and writes in Berlin.

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