Der stille Tod

The three short stories in this book are for people learning German, however they are actually fun and engaging to read. With murders, revenge, love, and money in the mix, these are certainly not the typical boring classroom stories. Every other page or so has an exercise to help you learn vocabulary or grammar; some exercises continue the plot, so you need to do them, and some are just for fun and can be skipped if you want.

This book is rated at the A1 level, according to the Gemeinsamer Europäischer Referenzrahmen (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). I have taken classes well into the B level, and while I was fine on the grammar the vocabulary really tripped me up. At first this was frustrating, but then I realized that not a lot of schoolwork focuses on crime, murder, and words relating to police investigations, so it's natural that these words would be new.