A novelist, Glass claims she encounters in real life characters from her stories, and often in violent situations. There a woman who says she’s Anna Glass begs Viktor to treat her schizophrenia. Is he truthful or mad? With that familiar premise, Fitzek begins a narrative that follows the beat of a metronome as short chapters tap out “premise-conflict-cliffhanger.” To recover from the trauma of his loss, Viktor leaves his wife and home in Berlin, heading to a retreat on an island in the North Sea. As Viktor relates what happened, over four years have passed and he’s strapped to his bed in a sanitarium. She passed into the examining room, never to be seen again. When psychiatrist Viktor Larenz’s daughter Josy was 12, he took her to an allergist, seeking help for a mysterious illness that caused severe vomiting and diarrhea. By-the-numbers thriller about a father who unravels the tale behind his daughter’s disappearance.
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