Tag Archives: Ferdinand Von Schirach  Guilt – Ferdinand
Von Schirach  Last November I happened upon a collection of
short stories that resonated with me and I found I couldn’t
really stop thinking about. This collection was ‘Crime’ by
Ferdinand von Schirach, all tales fictionalising some of the
cases he has come across, and even defended, in his time as a
solicitor. When his second collection ‘Guilt’ dropped through
the letterbox I was thrilled, yet I did have trepidations as
‘Crime’ had rather unnerved me with how some people get away
with truly terrible things, would it be the same in ‘Guilt’ or
could it be even worse?  Chatto & Windus, hardback, translated
by Carol Brown Janeway, 2012, fiction, 192 pages, kindly sent by
the publisher  If you are of a squeamish disposition or someone
who worries late at night about all the most unlikely scenarios
that could happen to you the next day (we have all done this at
some point haven’t we?) then I am not sure I would recommend the
second collection of Ferdinand von