Recommendations of the Editorial team
In our new column, Rolling-Stone author Gunter Blank no longer presents excellent food and drink, but exciting crime thriller.
Frank Göhre: Sicilian night
(Culturbooks)
★★★★
Despite thirty stylish novels, Frank Göhre is the most underestimated crime writer in Germany. At the beginning of the nineties, he moved to the Grand Hotel et des Palmes in Palermo. Now, at the beginning of eighty, he has processed the memories into an atmospheric thriller, about a tired, drug -dependent bohemian, who found death in room 224 under mysterious circumstances in 1933. Göhre has the story of the real Raymond Roussel, which among other things invented, converted and designs it for a universal story about “longing and the search for itself”.
Nicolás Ferraro: Ámbar
(Pendragon)
★★★★
The fifteen -year -old Ámbar is “the favorite scar” of her gangster father and thanks him by devilting him again after every shootout. The murder of a friend scares the duo, on the hunt for the killer they drift through the Argentine province. The trip becomes a trip into the past, and the deeper Ámbar penetrates her father’s secrets, the more it has to doubt the unbreakelessness of his affection. With his enchantingly migration-waltical coming novel novel, Ferraro immediately enrolled into the Pantheon of the Noir universe.
Ross Thomas: Fan voices
(ALEXANDER)
★★★★
Africa at the end of the 1960s. The first president is elected in the raw material -rich fictional state of Albertia. The British PR specialist Peter Upshaw and the American political strategist Clinton Shaftelle are supposed to maintain the British interests and help the outsider quickly see themselves against the CIA. The great Ross Thomas used his own experience as a spin doctor in Nigeria, who has just become independent, and delivers a breathtaking, exemplary political thriller about corruption and choice manipulation in postcolonial Africa.
Marcello Simoni: The grave of souls
(Folio)
★★★★
Marcello Simoni successfully changes in the footsteps of Umberto Eco and moves us into the Ferrara in 1626, where the murder of a Jewish mystic threatens the precarious balance of religions. The Dominican Girolamo Svampa, sent by the Vatican, is supposed to inform the crime, but encounters a huge intrigue, the goal of which is to drive out the Jews from the center and pour into a ghetto on the outskirts. Simoni pulls out all the registers, from sinister Inquisitors to Kabbalistic rites to a bodily golem, he digs up everything that lurks at the bottom of religious history.
Georges Simenon: Commissioner G7 and the murder on the canal
(Kampa)
★★★
Before Georges Simenon invented Commissioner Maigret, he changed in the footsteps of Arthur Conan Doyle and created a brilliant Parisian commissioner, because because his red hair was reminiscent of the roofs of the Paris G7 taxis, all called G7. G7, as much ingenious Sherlock Holmes as well as inconspicuously wicked inspector Columbo, is always used when the authorities in the capital and the province no longer know any further knowledge. He is accompanied in the 13 stories by Simenon’s alter ego, a young crime writer.