The Trap

Melanie Raabe

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Text Publishing Company
30 January 2017

Fiction & Literature; Thriller & suspense

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- This is the second crime fiction novel I've read recently that has come out of Germany. The first was The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Arango and now The Trap by Melanie Raabe. Both have been debut novels, both have featured writing and story-telling of the highest order, both have Imogen Taylor as translator and both come from Text Publishing. And both feature fictional authors with secrets to hide.

Another common element is that both authors have links with the dramatic arts, Arango being an award-winning screenplay writer and Raabe being an actor as well as a stage and screenwriter. I mention this because there is a freshness to the intensity of each novel that I think comes about because the authors know they are writing for a sophisticated audience who, having read many thrillers and seen many crime television shows and movies, are very knowledgable of the tropes of the genre.

Over four days I was drawn in to the hermetic world of Linda Conrads, an author who, despite considerable success, is unable to leave her house due to trauma brought on by her being the sole witness to the escaping murderer of her sister. The murderer was never caught and in the twelve years that have since passed, her illness has meant all her contact with the outside world is through technology and a small cohort of colleagues such as her publisher and agent. Linda Conrads is, despite her wish to be well again, the mysterious reclusive author. Then, on television, she sees the face of the murderer.

Written in the first person, it doesn't take long for the reader to be cocooned in the hothouse paranoia that exists in Linda Conrads' head as she devises a trap to draw out her sister's murderer and extract a confession. This is a super-taut psycho-thriller.

Craig Kirchner

p.s. Melanie Raabe doesn't have a sister and her brother is alive and well.

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"I know who killed my sister. I wrote this book for him."

Twelve years ago, Linda's sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw him.

Now, all these years later, she's just seen him again on TV.

He's become a well-known journalist, and Linda–a famous novelist and infamous recluse–knows no one will believe her if she accuses him.

She does the only thing she can think of: she sets a trap, writing a thriller called Blood Sisters about the unsolved murder of a young woman.

When Blood Sisters is published, Linda agrees to give just one media interview.

At home.

To the one person who knows more about the case than she does...

The Trap by Melanie Raabe at Abbey's Bookshop 131 York Street, Sydney

By: Melanie Raabe
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 216g
ISBN: 9781925498103
ISBN 10: 1925498107
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 January 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Melanie Raabe grew up in Thuringia, Germany, and attended the Ruhr University Bochum, where she specialised in media studies and literature. After graduating, she moved to Cologne to work as a journalist by day and secretly write books by night. The Trap, her debut novel, is an international bestseller. Her second book, already a bestseller in Germany, will be published by Text in 2017.

Reviews for The Trap

`Engrossing.' * SA Weekend * `A gripping psychological thriller with a literary difference. Fact and fiction blur as we race towards the dramatic conclusion never quite sure what to expect next.' * Better Reading * `A fast, twisty read for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn.' * Booklist * `Raabe has crafted a brilliant psychological thriller. It is fast-paced with an abundance of twists and red herrings, and more than one heart-stopping climax.' * BookMooch * 'Suspenseful...taut storytelling.' * Publishers Weekly * `A mind-bending psychological thriller...An intriguing debut novel.' * Otago Daily Times * `You won't be able to resist.' * Elle UK * `The tables turn and turn again, while the reader's trust in the narrator's credibility is tested to the max.' * Sydney Morning Herald *

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