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Munich, September 1931.

Detective Sigfried Sauer is urgently called to an elegant apartment in Prinzregentenplatz, where twenty-two-year-old Angela Raubal, known as Geli, was found lifeless in her locked room. Next to her lifeless body there is a revolver: everything points to a suicide. Geli, however, is not an ordinary girl, and the apartment in which she lived and died, as well as the revolver that fired the fatal shot, do not belong to an ordinary man: her legal guardian is “Uncle Alf”, known to the rest of Germany as Adolf Hitler, the most talked about politician of the moment, partly also because of that strange relationship with his niece, a source of indignation and scandal both among the ranks of his enemies and among his closest collaborators. Always together, always blissful and smiling in an intimacy that was at times adolescent, the rumors about them only increased after their beautiful niece had moved into their guardian’s apartment.

Sauer immediately finds himself investigating, squeezed between those who order him to close the investigation within a few hours and those who instead intimate him to get to the bottom of the case and discover the truth, whatever it may be. Hitler, who rushed from Nuremberg as soon as he heard the news, confirmed that he had an unassailable alibi. Even the depositions of the members of the servants all agree perfectly. Yet it is precisely this apparent incontrovertibility of the facts that makes Sauer doubt, who decides to investigate further.

The truths he will discover, so obscure as to make every professional and personal certainty waver, will push him to make decisions on whose outcome could determine the very future of democracy in Germany…

Against the backdrop of a dying Weimar Republic, in which everyone feels the omens of the Nazi tragedy, The Angel of Munich is a thriller in a miraculous balance between incontrovertible historical reality and compelling fiction, a journey in pursuit of a remnant of truth capable of restoring dignity to the first, true victim of propaganda Nazi: the young and innocent Geli Raubal.