Terminal

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After the doctors tell her that she's losing her battle with cancer, Minnie reluctantly takes the last bed at Holl House, a hospice in Hamburg, Germany, to confront life's most unanswerable questions. To her surprise, her new-and last-home could almost pass for a hotel (no white coats and plenty of champagne), if it weren't for the full-time staff, the hard drugs, and the hearse parked outside. Before long, Minnie realizes that death isn't the only mystery to be explored at Holl House: each of her terminally ill roommates hides a secret, and as her own departure nears, she begins to suspect that three recent passings are not quite as natural as they appear. But in a place where dying is a foregone conclusion, why would anyone bother to commit murder? With a killer on her heels and time running out, Minnie vows to solve the crime before she, too, says her last goodbye. Told with surprising humor and frankness, Terminal is a murder mystery in an unlikely place as the dying approach the greatest mystery of all.

Mike Powelz was born in Ahaus, Germany. He has worked in television and print and is currently employed as a chief reporter for several of Germany's top entertainment magazines. Powelz is married and lives in Hamburg. Terminal is his first novel.