Bunker by Andrea Maria Schenkel - Quercus Publishing Plc (2010), Hardcover, 224 pages [Our New Books - LibraryThing]
I can still vividly recall reading The Murder Farm by this author. On the train on the way to the Melbourne Writers Festival - the first year they moved it to Fed Square so the last year we bothered with our yearly gathering and attendance. If I hadn't been on the train with friends I'd have probably ended up out at whatever remote station was at the end of the final stage of that train's daily movements. Couldn't put the book down, read it between MWF sessions and was just completely hooked. Needless to say - anything by this author is still on my Get Immediately list. Bunker is the third available in English now - the second book is Ice Cold.
It had been a normal day at work. Monika was locking up, ready to head home, when the man arrived. She didn't even see his fist until it was far too late...
Bundled into a car, tied up and taken in darkness to an old mill in the thick of a forest, she has been flung into a bunker. It is only now, as time passes and she sees her attacker in the light, that she notices the startling resemblance to someone from her very dark and buried past, someone she never wanted to see again.
Was this a robbery gone wrong?
Is he Hans returned for revenge?
Is she even the victim at all?