Zen and the Art of Murder
A Black Forest Investigation I
$23.05
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
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 signa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529453256 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529453259 |
| Author: | Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 130mm x 196mm |
| Series: | The Black Forest Investigations |
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Critics Review
An exceptional crime novel. * TAZ *
It’s been a long time since any crime author started out so strongly, so visually. * Die Zeit *
Oliver Bottini, one of the few German authors who play in crime-writing’s premier league, really knows how to tell a good story. * Frankfurter Rundschau *
Tension without brutality, local colour without small-minded sentimentality, good intelligent reading with depth. * Handelsblatt *
A 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 Zeit *
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 Times *
A nicely done shock thriller * Weekend Sport *
An atmospheric, original story that will keep you hooked to
the final heart-rending revelations
Bottini has established himself as a strong new voice in crime with this inventive mystery … The fictional landscape is beguiling and the story utterly gripping * Book Noir *
With its cinematic writing style, its brilliant sense of location and its strong visual depiction of an inhospitable landscape, Zen provides an intelligent and engrossing crossover novel between a police procedural and the study of an individual’s personal collapse * Riveting Reviews *
Oliver Bottini
Oliver Bottini was born in 1965. Five of his novels, including Zen and the Art of Murder and A Summer of Murder (part of the Black Forest Investigations series), 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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