Description: "First published in German as Die Seunderin by Wunderlich, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Teinbek bei Hamburg, 1999"--Title page verso.
Review Quotes: "The Sinner is unnerving and weird and guaranteed to stick with you weeks later." --Sarah Weinman
"Hauntingly insightful and sensitive." --The Guardian "Delightfully unsettling." --The Telegraph "The best psychological suspense novel I have read all year . . . a brilliant study of a woman driven to the edge of madness." --Sunday Telegraph "[A] complex, disturbing, and fast-paced psychological thriller." --Booklist "This novel by one of Germany's most successful crime writers is wonderfully written, gripping, full of psychological insight." --Literary Review "Petra Hammesfahr's The Sinner demonstrates why she is one of Germany's bestselling writers of crime and psychological thrillers. It's grim, delves deep into the human psyche, and keeps you gripped." --The Times (London)