Zen and the Art of Murder
A Black Forest Investigation I
$34.05
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2018
Summary
NOW SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER
“Gripping” Tatler
The first in a thrilling new crime series set in Germany - the BLACK FOREST INVESTIGATIONS
Louise Boni, maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the shadows of the past.
Dreading yet another a dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857057365 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857057367 |
| Author: | Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 22mm |
| Series: | The Black Forest Investigations |
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Gripping. - Tatler.
The first of his award-winning Black Forest novels to appear in English. It has an arresting opening image: a Buddhist monk with a head injury strides across the snowy landscape of the border country between Germany and France … a surprising and genuinely shocking case. - The Sunday TimesAn exceptional crime novel. - TAZIt’s been a long time since any crime author started out so strongly, so visually. - Die ZeitTension without brutality, local colour without small-minded sentimentality, good intelligent reading with depth. - HandelsblattA piercing examination of our reality … Bottini uses the full potential of the genre to look deep into humanity’s abyss and sees there the concealed traumas of German society - Die ZeitOliver Bottini, one of the few German authors who play in crime-writing’s premier league, really knows how to tell a good story. - Frankfurter RundschauAbout The Author
Oliver Bottini
Oliver Bottini was born in 1965. Five of his novels, including ZEN AND THE ART OF MURDER and A SUMMER OF MURDER of the Black Forest Investigations have been awarded the Deutscher Krimipreis, Germany’s most prestigious award for crime writing. ZEN AND THE ART OF MURDER was shortlisted for the 2018 CWA International Dagger. He lives in Frankfurt.
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