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"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
― Toni Morrison

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
― Plato

I love quotes as much as I love books. I'm twenty-four years old. I've earned degrees in translating, comparative literature, psychology and sociology and am currently studying International Information Management in Germany so that I can do something useful if I never get any of my work published ;)

"THE BURDEN OF THE BADGE" is my first crime novel and A DIE-HARD HAIRSPLITTING GRAMMAR GENIUS IS MORE THAN WELCOME to give nitpicky comments, especially from chapter thirteen onwards.

Thank you in advance !!

I'll be more than happy to comment, proofread, rate etc. in turn. Just let me know. I am always up for a swap.





favourite books

- "In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner" Elizabeth George
- "Missing Joseph" Elizabeth George
- "This Body of Death" Elizabeth George
- "Believing the Lie" Elizabeth George
- "The Point of Rescue" Sophie Hannah
- "Wasted - A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia" Marya Hornbacher
- "Madness - A Bipolar Life" Marya Hornbacher
- "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" Sigmund Freud (unbelievably complicated if read in German)
- "Heartstoppers" Joy Fielding
- "Written in Bone" Simon Beckett
- "Deadly Games" Hilary Norman
- "Scavenger" David Morrell
- "Murphy's law"

And everything by Håkan Nesser, mostly his Detective Van Veeteren novels and, and, and, and, and ...

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The Burden of the Badge

Nicola Hoppe

“No plant can grow without roots, Melina,” he spat, his breath burning like acid on her cheeks. Then he left, slamming the door behind him.


Jerry's life changes in the twinkling of an eye when his wife suffers a fatal heart attack due to her overweight. A voice starts talking to him, telling him that starving is the most outrageous sin of all. Now he has a mission, determined to kill young women who are infested by flesh-eating, bone-exposing parasites.

And the perfect victim of all is a young cop, the daughter of a bohemian musician and an ambitious police captain who is stumbling through her life, having no idea who she is and where she belongs. Torn between two identities, she takes refuge in the soothing twist of hunger, allowing the hunted to become the hunter.

 

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gingerknucklehairs wrote 12 hours ago

Special freebie spam. Dear friend, my book is free on Amazon this ban....

AlexandraMahanaim wrote 3 days ago

Thank you, Nicola! Your comment is greatly appreciated! Alexandra

AlexandraMahanaim wrote 10 days ago

Dear Nicola, I came across your profile and want to ask you if you wo....

MJStar wrote 19 days ago

Do you belong to any forums on this site? It doesn't matter, I'm cond....

MJStar wrote 19 days ago

I 'm reading it now. Crazy busy with me starting summer school soon.

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I wrote 3 days ago

Hi Alexandra, here for our read swap. I read the first chapter and am impressed with your power of imagination as well as your detailed descriptions. Your story is rich in emotion, making the characters come alive on the screen. However, I felt there were too many of them. Maybe this is because I ... view book

I wrote 39 days ago

MC, I read the first three chapters and am intrigued by the depth of your characters, especially Sally. You have a way with words which makes her and her family come alive on the page or--to be more precise--the screen. The scenery in chapter one is believably established through dialogue, the foll... view book

I wrote 41 days ago

Hi Michael, the first chapter was very gripping, especially the conversation between Angie and her visitor. You created a lot of tension with him talking about the beauty of a thousand-year-old knife and her trying to evaluate what his visit was actually about, leaving the reader in the dark. Also,... view book

I wrote 45 days ago

Hi Jennie, the pitch really stirred up my curiosity and the prologue is well written, setting the scene smoothly. I felt it was a little long for a prologue but maybe that's just me. The horrible ending and the fifteen years forward flash made me want to read more. The scene introducing Jessie is p... view book

I wrote 49 days ago

This is amazing. It is authentic, honest, real and graspable. You tell your story without attempting to pin the blame on someone, be it your family or the system, and with an astonishing sense of humor that made me giggle several times throughout the six chapters, especially when you described the... view book

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