Zen and the Art of Murder

#1 Black Forest

Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch

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14 August 2018

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery; Fiction in translation

Series: The Black Forest Investigations

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""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 strangest assignment of her career - to trail a Japanese monk wandering through the snowy wasteland to the east of Freiburg, dressed only in sandals and a cowl. She sets off reluctantly, and by the time she catches up with him, she discovers that he is injured, and fearfully fleeing some unknown evil. When her own team comes under fire, the investigation takes on a terrifying dimension, uncovering a hideous ring of child traffickers. The repercussions of their crimes will change the course of her own life.

Oliver Bottini is a fresh and exciting voice in the world of crime fiction in translation; the Rhine borderlands of the Black Forest are a perfect setting for his beautifully crafted mysteries.

Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch"

By: Oliver Bottini
Translated by: Jamie Bulloch
Imprint: Headline
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780857057365
ISBN 10: 0857057367
Series: The Black Forest Investigations
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 14 August 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Oliver Bottini was born in 1965. Four 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. In addition his novels have been awarded the Stuttgarter Krimipreis and the Berliner Krimipreis. He lives in Berlin. www.bottini.de.

Reviews for Zen and the Art of Murder (#1 Black Forest)

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 An exceptional crime novel. - TAZ It's been a long time since any crime author started out so strongly, so visually. - Die Zeit 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 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