There is no love lost between dreamy Paul and his lively younger brother Achim. Indeed, everlasting peace does not exactly prevail when the family comes together in the family home in Mainz after Father's funeral. As the old saying goes - as God brings death to a man, so the Devil reunites his heirs! An inscrutable mother, two vastly dissimilar brothers and a disagreeable daughter-in-law find themselves in the family home in Mainz after the funeral of the hypochondriac father, who has departed this world. They have not seen each other for some time, with good reason, and the old squabbles resurface almost immediately. Was the old man's departure really of natural causes? The brothers – Paul and Achim – create wild fantasies on the theme, while daughter-in-law Annette gambles with her marriage. In her new novel, Ingrid Noll is as sensitive and as pitiless as never before. Complicated women and morbid men: ›Rabenbrüder‹ come from a family in which everyone creates obstacles for the rest. This is Ingrid Noll at her dark and narrative best!