Fresh Meat: The Russian Donation by Christoph Spielberg
By Leigh Neely
January 13, 2013The Russian Donation by Christoph Spielberg, Dr. Felix Hoffmann’s first case, won the 2002 Friedrich Glauser Prize for best first German-language crime novel (available in English January 22, 2013). Why would a reasonably happy, successful doctor be compelled to investigate the unremarkable death of a former indigent patient? Good question, but in The Russian Donation,…