Historic houses in Templin, the town where Merkel spent her childhood. Photos: Soeren Stache/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
After retiring as chancellor, Angela Merkel moves back to her native Uckermark, an hour's drive north of Berlin, with husband Joachim and pet pug Putin. There, Merkel inadvertently becomes a sleuth when her bucolic idyll is overshadowed by a murder.
This is the ludicrous plot of a new tongue-in-cheek detective novel by German author David Salier, which is selling well as Merkel plans to leave office after 16 years.
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