The Judas Tree by Patricia le Roy [PDF] {Zer07}

August 1990. A car goes off a mountain road in the Cévennes in southern France. There are no survivors. The driver is Anne, a young French violinist. Is the crash the tragic accident that it appears to be, or is there a darker reason for what happened? Anne was married to Matthias, an East German cellist, and for five years she has been living in the DDR. Is the timing of the crash fortuitous? The Berlin Wall has just come down, the repressive East German state is on the verge of extinction, and its citizens will soon be allowed to see their Stasi secret police files. Did Anne have something to hide? Who was she really? Not until Matthias visits Anne’s family in Uzès three years later does the truth finally emerge.