'Devastating and fascinating' New York Times

'Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose' Observer

A group of respectable family men are charged with the brutal murder of a teenager.

A promising student gets caught up in a sadistic schoolboy gang.

A couple are bound together by the events of one bloody night.

Where do you draw the line between good and evil?

In Guilt, people commit violent, extraordinary acts; some are convicted in a court of law, others are not. But our narrator, a nameless lawyer, knows that this is never the whole story.

Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach's eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, the stories in Guilt blur fiction and truth, compelling us to question the difference between guilt and justice, innocence and complicity.

"Praise for Ferdinand von Schirach" - -

"Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose" - Observer

"Tantalising and disturbing in equal measure" - Guardian

"An exceptional prose stylist" - New York Times

"A magnificent storyteller" - Der Spiegel

"Psychologically raw . . . delivered in a crisp translation by Katharina Hall, his unfussy prose is icily effective . . . it suggests that all justice systems are flawed, that they are all just processes. And, with immense empathy, von Schirach's stories show what happens to people when they are processed." - Financial Times

"The stories are cool, meticulously crafted, pithy and mordantly amusing . . . this is an unsettling, affecting, extremely powerful book. Highly recommended" - Irish Times

"An impressive page-turner with substance and bite" - Bookmunch