I don’t want to run down Bell’s translation, which is very good and does the job, and even if it were not so good, it would certainly be adequate for a reader – OK, translations always lose something, of course. But I wanted to see how the legal terminology would be a problem for her. And in contrast to Schirach’s short stories, this novel has much more to do with lawyers and courts. It follows the training and experience of a young lawyer in the Berlin criminal courts.