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A dead body has been dumped in the red light district of Hamburg and the head of the local station, Revier Davidstrasse or Davidwache, as the locals know it, isn't happy at all. There are no clues as to the identity of the victim, who, despite her very nice female attributes, isn't quite a woman. Kommissar Schneider asks for help from special branch, the Sonderdezernat, and Hauptkommisar Buchholz charges his most experienced agent, Wolf Schwedt, who is a master of disguises, with it.
Wolf has to realise quickly that he has no other chance than to go under cover in the transvestite and transgender scene of the district in Grosse Freiheit and, to be more precise, the Monika Bar. Trying to play the timid novice doesn't work as hoped, but when he comes back another day to the Monika Bar, a strange lady drugs and abducts him with the aim of feminising him and make him her whore. The plan works but has a rather different result than expected. His police training enables him to escape, but after having been raped by the bouncers and later seduced by the mistress of the brothel he is deeply disturbed. The only person he trusts to meet, since he's still looking completely like a woman, is Angela, the patrol woman from Davidwache Schneider has assigned as liaison.
She takes the newly minted Monika in and they have sex, as Angela is a lesbian and Monika is just too sexy to pass by, specially as the new drug, that is all the rage among the lesbians, is still very much active in Monika. A friend of Angela's, who is a hypnotherapist, helps Monika cope with her new image and desires and Monika comes to terms with the fact, that she possibly was transgender from the beginning.
As the case progresses and Monika and Angela discover the identity of the victim it becomes more and more clear, that this is much, much bigger than just a murder case, there is a Russian gang, that threatens to invade not only the red light district but Hamburg in general with demands for protection payments. A continuously more and more dangerous investigation forces Monika to become the woman, who stands between the ladies of the quarter and the Russian gang..
Wolf has to realise quickly that he has no other chance than to go under cover in the transvestite and transgender scene of the district in Grosse Freiheit and, to be more precise, the Monika Bar. Trying to play the timid novice doesn't work as hoped, but when he comes back another day to the Monika Bar, a strange lady drugs and abducts him with the aim of feminising him and make him her whore. The plan works but has a rather different result than expected. His police training enables him to escape, but after having been raped by the bouncers and later seduced by the mistress of the brothel he is deeply disturbed. The only person he trusts to meet, since he's still looking completely like a woman, is Angela, the patrol woman from Davidwache Schneider has assigned as liaison.
She takes the newly minted Monika in and they have sex, as Angela is a lesbian and Monika is just too sexy to pass by, specially as the new drug, that is all the rage among the lesbians, is still very much active in Monika. A friend of Angela's, who is a hypnotherapist, helps Monika cope with her new image and desires and Monika comes to terms with the fact, that she possibly was transgender from the beginning.
As the case progresses and Monika and Angela discover the identity of the victim it becomes more and more clear, that this is much, much bigger than just a murder case, there is a Russian gang, that threatens to invade not only the red light district but Hamburg in general with demands for protection payments. A continuously more and more dangerous investigation forces Monika to become the woman, who stands between the ladies of the quarter and the Russian gang..
689 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 8, 2020
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About the author
Monique S.
12 books55 followersMonique S is my pen name, legally I am Monika Magdalena Schenke. I was born in 1953 in Hamburg, Germany to a journalist father and Secretary mother as a boy.
Yes, I am a transwoman and a lesbian one at that. You might be surprised, that I am so outspoken with it, but if you had any idea what I had to go through in inner turmoil and childhood traumas, professional disappointments and discrimination, you might even get a glimpse at the reasons, why today I am so proud of what I have achieved for myself and who I have become.
I have had several jobs in my life, paramedic (during my obligatory service), bar person, delivery driver and finally cabinet and flight case maker in a company I had co founded at 25 with four partners while still male. What never left me during all that was the deep almost desperate desire to be the woman I knew I was inside. When a dispute about company policy ended in legal procedures to get rid of me and even my girl-friend of 5 years betrayed me, I thought I had reached the end of my tether, but some friends who remained, when I came out, and the manager of the Scorpions, for whom I had re-designed a system “my” company had shown 1980 at the music fair in Frankfurt, kept me working and alive, so I started my transition. Very soon I had to find out, that the recent (1982) German law on Transgender (called Transsexuellen Gesetz) was there to make it as difficult as possible, to do it legally.
I felt being classed as incompetent to make decisions for my future, I felt like treated as a child, but at 32 years of age and after I had run a very successful company for years. First they expected me to find work as a woman without being able to legally change my name, then I was to go through two years like that during which I might or might not become allowed to take female hormones. All I could do was to laugh in their faces at that, leave the country in 1986 and go to the UK, where the name change with the help of a Deed Poll was a breeze. That way I also escaped at least some of the radioactive clouds from Chernobyl.
Following that experience I and my then female partner became interested in the astrological system called “Münchner Rhytmenlehre”® by Wolfgang Döbereiner. It did not take long, until our efforts were rewarded. First of all I understood a lot more who I was and why, but together my lady and I were a fabulous team reading charts. Living as a woman called Dhyan Magna with her we became sought after as astrologers and co-therapist for certain therapy groups.
After three years my lady began being interested in men again and we parted ways amicably, she to study alternative medicine (Heilpraktiker) with her man and I to continue as travelling astrologer on my own, spending more or less 10 years “on the road again”, giving readings in England, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 1996 I finally decided to put down roots in Somerset/Devon on Exmoor. Seeing the social climate in what was until then the soil of my choice for life degenerate rapidly, a friend and I decided to have a look at the other side of the channel. In 2000 she bought a not quite derelict farmhouse in Brittany, where we lived together rebuilding it.
By 2015 my friend and I had pretty much developed in different directions and, since I didn’t find any work in electrics any more, I accepted the invitation of an old friend in the UK and found work there as Independent Quality Analyst for translations between German, English and sometimes French. I left again in 2016 after the Brexit vote.
In May 2019 finally I reached the German retirement age for my year and month of birth, but it took a year until all the German bureaucratic nightmare was over and I could ask for a pension in France, that finally enabled me to fully concentrate on my writing.
Yes, I am a transwoman and a lesbian one at that. You might be surprised, that I am so outspoken with it, but if you had any idea what I had to go through in inner turmoil and childhood traumas, professional disappointments and discrimination, you might even get a glimpse at the reasons, why today I am so proud of what I have achieved for myself and who I have become.
I have had several jobs in my life, paramedic (during my obligatory service), bar person, delivery driver and finally cabinet and flight case maker in a company I had co founded at 25 with four partners while still male. What never left me during all that was the deep almost desperate desire to be the woman I knew I was inside. When a dispute about company policy ended in legal procedures to get rid of me and even my girl-friend of 5 years betrayed me, I thought I had reached the end of my tether, but some friends who remained, when I came out, and the manager of the Scorpions, for whom I had re-designed a system “my” company had shown 1980 at the music fair in Frankfurt, kept me working and alive, so I started my transition. Very soon I had to find out, that the recent (1982) German law on Transgender (called Transsexuellen Gesetz) was there to make it as difficult as possible, to do it legally.
I felt being classed as incompetent to make decisions for my future, I felt like treated as a child, but at 32 years of age and after I had run a very successful company for years. First they expected me to find work as a woman without being able to legally change my name, then I was to go through two years like that during which I might or might not become allowed to take female hormones. All I could do was to laugh in their faces at that, leave the country in 1986 and go to the UK, where the name change with the help of a Deed Poll was a breeze. That way I also escaped at least some of the radioactive clouds from Chernobyl.
Following that experience I and my then female partner became interested in the astrological system called “Münchner Rhytmenlehre”® by Wolfgang Döbereiner. It did not take long, until our efforts were rewarded. First of all I understood a lot more who I was and why, but together my lady and I were a fabulous team reading charts. Living as a woman called Dhyan Magna with her we became sought after as astrologers and co-therapist for certain therapy groups.
After three years my lady began being interested in men again and we parted ways amicably, she to study alternative medicine (Heilpraktiker) with her man and I to continue as travelling astrologer on my own, spending more or less 10 years “on the road again”, giving readings in England, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 1996 I finally decided to put down roots in Somerset/Devon on Exmoor. Seeing the social climate in what was until then the soil of my choice for life degenerate rapidly, a friend and I decided to have a look at the other side of the channel. In 2000 she bought a not quite derelict farmhouse in Brittany, where we lived together rebuilding it.
By 2015 my friend and I had pretty much developed in different directions and, since I didn’t find any work in electrics any more, I accepted the invitation of an old friend in the UK and found work there as Independent Quality Analyst for translations between German, English and sometimes French. I left again in 2016 after the Brexit vote.
In May 2019 finally I reached the German retirement age for my year and month of birth, but it took a year until all the German bureaucratic nightmare was over and I could ask for a pension in France, that finally enabled me to fully concentrate on my writing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great thriller for the broad minded adult
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A crime thriller ranging from Hambug's Reeperbahn to the opera in Vienna Assuming that alternative lifestyles are not a turn off a great read and well up to Moniques usual high standard.
alison
5.0 out of 5 stars A great thriller for the broad minded adult
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2020
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A crime thriller ranging from Hambug's Reeperbahn to the opera in Vienna Assuming that alternative lifestyles are not a turn off a great read and well up to Moniques usual high standard.
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