Tuesday, 5/20/2025
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Veikko Bartel reads from his books Murderers and Murderesses

Experience up close the gripping cases of a criminal defense attorney who specializes in defending murderers and murderesses.

“For true crime fans, an absolute must! Repulsive and fascinating at the same time. Ice cold and heartwarming.”

Close your eyes. You are sitting across from a woman, a sympathetic, courteous, loving mother of two children. She has suffocated her newborn. Another day. A man. You talk to him about Bach and Bruckner, about the Russian romantics. Then you open the files and look at the pictures of the bodies of two women. He has slit their throats. Imagine having to breathe the same air as this person even after looking at these pictures, spending time in the same room, conversing with him, listening to him, believing him, defending him with all the means of art in court, in public, before the press. Would you do it? And if so, could you do it?
And now imagine this is not a fictional plot, but pure reality. Don’t believe it?
Then “Welcome!” to the world of Veikko Bartel.

“Bartel plays with the reader, drives him to the limits, shows him the extent of evil. This is really about the cases. Not about the defense strategy, not about the verdict or the trial (at least not primarily), just about the how and the eternally looming why…… All in all, Murderesses is a book that is very readable, but will surely push some readers to a certain limit. That’s okay, because unlike in a courtroom, you can simply close the book and read it later. For as shocking as the cases are, curiosity will prevail and you’ll want to continue reading. The book will bring some readers to the limits of their imagination, to the limits of their emotions. But the book may also lead some readers to reconsider that not everything is as it seems at first glance.” (Sächsische Zeitung)
“Bartel not only describes the acts and what lies behind them, but he also gives a deep insight into his work as a criminal defense attorney. And this perspective is what sets the book apart from so many other crime depictions,” (Berliner Morgenpost)
“Schirach's short stories seem like simple children's tales compared to Bartel's stories.” (Maurice Feiel – Between the Lines)

Murderers, published in 2018 by Mosaik Verlag

Murderesses, published in 2019 by Mosaik Verlag



https://www.veikko-bartel.de/

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