Description

On a sweltering day in August, a little city drunkenly remembers its six-hundredth anniversary with a funfair when an anonymous tip leads authorities to locate a young lady cruelly beaten, raped, and tossed underneath the floorboards of the extremely phase on which her enemies had simply performed a polka. An eight-member steel group made up of respectable family-men with respectable day-jobs is charged with the offense. A neophyte protection attorney, still-wet behind the ears and busting in his attaché case, assumes the test, simply to lose his innocence along the way.   Therefore starts Shame, Ferdinand von Schirach’s tight, captivating assortment of stories centered on actual crimes he's recognized.