Forestry student Anja Grimm is working on a soil-mapping project in a remote region in Bavaria where her father disappeared when she was just eight years old. A few days into the work, the nightmare of her childhood seems to repeat itself. Deep in the woods she runs into Xaver, the village idiot, whom she often played with when she was a child. Just hours after they meet, he hangs himself. And Xaver's suicide will not remain the only disturbing event connected to Anja's reappearance. An emotionally charged thriller about guilt and denial, "The Silent Forest" is set in a present day idyllic German region still haunted by terrible events that transpired there during the last days of the war - a moving story about a young woman who cannot help but read the mute testimony of the horrors of history written in the silent language of nature.
Wolfram Fleischhauer Book order






- 2023
- 2017
In A Tender Hold
- 534 pages
- 19 hours of reading
Set in Berlin during the winter of 1926, the story follows Edgar von Rabov, a frequent patron of the Eldorado bar. One fateful evening, he becomes entranced by a captivating Anglo-Indian woman, whose alluring glances suggest a mutual attraction. This encounter sets the stage for a compelling exploration of desire and connection in a vibrant, historical setting.
- 2016
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
In a similar vein as John Fowles in "The French Lieutenant's Woman," best selling author Wolfram Fleischhauer (Fatal Tango) has created two converging suspense stories from the past and the present that turn out to be one. Historical court-room-drama as well as a gripping present-day love-story, "Somewhere I Have Never Travelled" is a highly original and deeply moving work that ingeniously blends historical and contemporary fiction. Paris in the spring of 1867 A few days before the official inauguration of the World Fair, the dead body of a child is found in the river Seine. The mother is arrested and accused of infanticide. She denies having killed her child and claims to have left it at a hospital for treatment a few days before. But nobody in the hospital remembers anything... Paris in the spring of 1992 What mystery surrounds a young French woman in a library in Paris who obsessively researches this long forgotten case of infanticide? Bruno, a 27-year-old architect who is looking for material for his thesis on the 1867 World Fair, needs some of the books the young woman is reading. Reluctantly, she agrees to share some of the material with him. Bruno soon falls in the love with her, but she refuses his advances. Until he starts taking an interest in the strange case she is determined to uncover.
- 2012
Giulietta Battin, a ballet dancer at Staatsoper Berlin, explores tango and begins a passionate affair with Argentinean dancer Damián Alsina. Their relationship turns dark when Damián's erratic behavior leads to the kidnapping of her father. Giulietta's quest for answers takes her to Buenos Aires, uncovering the haunting truths of Damián's past and its ties to her own.