The Boy Who Drew Shadows

December 1943. Auschwitz. Under mysterious circumstances, a Nazi doctor who conducted inhumane experiments alongside Josef Mengele is found dead. The renowned Berlin criminalist Hugo Fischer arrives to investigate the case. But Hugo has his own vulnerability — a degenerative disease he must hide from the Reich to survive. In this investigation, his key witness becomes Joël, a young prisoner with an extraordinary gift for drawing. It is this boy who first sees the crime scene and captures it on paper.

The Boy Who Drew Shadows by Oriana Ramunno is a tangled detective story unfolding against the backdrop of humanity’s most horrific tragedy. Will the criminalist be able to solve the murder when the very system around him is one vast crime?