Veikko Bartel – Murderers

Close your eyes. You’re sitting opposite a woman – a likeable, courteous, loving mother of two children. She has suffocated her newborn baby. Another day. A man. You’re chatting to him about Bach and Bruckner, about the Russian Romantics. Then you open the files and look at the photographs of the bodies of two women. He has slit their throats. Imagine having to breathe the same air as this person even after looking at these photographs, spending time in the same room, talking to them, listening to them, believing them, defending them by every means available to the arts – in court, in public, and before the press. Would you do it? And if so, could you do it?

And now imagine that this is not a fictional plot, but pure reality. Don’t you believe it?

Then ‘A warm welcome!’ to the world of Veikko Bartel.

“Bartel not only describes the crimes and what lies behind them, but also provides a deep insight into his work as a criminal defence lawyer. And it is this perspective that sets the book apart from so many other crime stories,” (Berliner Morgenpost)