Book tips 2022: These 5 books are the perfect summer reading on vacation
Created: 2022-06-24Updated: 2022-06-24 13:37
By: Sven Trautwein
Whether on the beach, in the mountains or at home: these five novels are the best way to enjoy summer 2022!
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The long-awaited summer vacation is about to start.
Now it's time to distract and switch off.
Get out of the daily routine, into the hammock, on the balcony or on a blanket in the meadow.
Plus something to nibble on and a cool drink.
Then it's time to immerse yourself in the stories.
It's going to be a great summer with these five books.
Martin Walker: "Tête-à-Tête"
Martin Walker "Tête-à-Tête" - Bruno Chef de police, Volume 14 © Diogenes
Bruno's boss hasn't let go of a murder case to this day.
The body of a young man was found in the woods near Saint-Denis and was never identified.
During a visit to the Prehistoric Museum in Les Eyzies, Bruno sees that bone finds can be used to reconstruct what a person looked like when he was alive.
He suggests trying the same procedure on the unsolved murder case.
The search for the killer finally begins.
Diogenes
It wouldn't be summer without a crime thriller by Martin Walker.
Crazy how time flies.
The fourteenth volume about Bruno, Chef de police, has now been published.
For me it's definitely the perfect summer entertainment with the right French flair.
The mixture of novel, background knowledge and peppered with cooking recipes is a clear buy recommendation for me: cook the dishes in the reading breaks and then enjoy.
What more do you want?
Martin Walker "Tête-à-Tête"
2022, Diogenes ISBN-13 978-3-257-07199-3
Price: Hardcover €25, e-book €21.99, 398 pages (different format) - Order here!
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Becca Braun: "Light breaks before it shines"
Becca Braun "Light breaks before it shines" © dtv
Virginia dreams of a life in Berlin, but out of consideration for her single mother - addicted to sleeping pills and her daughter's love - she starts studying near her.
When she visits a feminist university group, she meets like-minded young people who are committed to a diverse society.
Although they all struggle with their own challenges, a deep friendship quickly develops.
And then there is the law student Benedict, who compensates for his self-doubt with over-ambitious performance.
But just as they begin to trust each other, Virginia's toxic relationship with her mother catches up with her...
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A book that deals with the big issues and problems: friendship, love and the relationship with one's parents.
But it is also a journey to oneself. Knowing and experiencing oneself.
Not everything can be dismissed as fate.
Even if it addresses difficult topics, we all recognize ourselves in it.
This is what makes the novel special.
Becca Braun "Light breaks before it shines"
2022, dtv ISBN-13 978-3-423-21985-3
Price: paperback €14.95, e-book €12.99, 315 pages (different format) - Order here!
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Samantha Parks: "A Summer House in Santorini"
Samantha Parks "A Summer House in Santorini" © Harper Collins
On the small Greek island of Santorini, where the turquoise waters of the Aegean lap gently onto the sandy beach, Anna has inherited a summer house from her father, which unfortunately is anything but inviting.
During the renovation work, she begins to rearrange her life as well.
And without wanting to, Anna falls in love with this little piece of paradise and with the wonderful Nikos, who is always in the right place at the right time...
HarperCollins
The perfect summer novel to switch off.
Greece.
Santorini.
Summer.
Sea.
Does it actually take so much more for an entertaining book on vacation?
Anna's search for herself is embedded in summery, shimmering surroundings.
Greece's most popular island of Santorini forms the background.
Just the right book to get rid of heavy thoughts and just let yourself drift.
Samantha Park's "His Summer Home in Santorini"
2022 HarperCollins ISBN-13 978-3-749-90007-7
Price: paperback €11, e-book €8.99, 304 pages (different format) - Order here!
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Helene Hegemann: "Battle Lake"
Cover of "Schlachtensee" by Helene Hegemann © Kiepenheuer-Witsch
In fifteen episodes, Helene Hegemann explodes all categories through which we try to understand the present with a lucid gaze and great linguistic power. A peacock is killed with a golf club and exposes the double standards of the American cultural elite.
A young woman wants to go to her parents in the Austrian provinces and keeps missing her station.
A swim in the Volga marks the end of a destructive relationship.
A boy falls in love with another while they are surrounded by fifty wild boars.
A female snowboarder wakes up under a blanket of snow.
A painting by Monet plunges an art expert into a deep crisis of meaning.
There are injured, powerful characters that Helene Hegemann lets wander through the book and a world in which violence is most dangerous when it is to be suppressed,
where working through contradictions can be painful, but also great fun.
Gradually, a perfidiously constructed psychogram of our society is put together, which is disturbing and exhilarating at the same time.
Publisher's text, Kiepenheuer-Witsch
The new collection of stories by Helene Hegemann shows the author with a new tenderness, almost a vulnerability, which fundamentally distinguishes it from her previous works.
The protagonists may seem banal, but that's how we as readers recognize ourselves. We feel drawn to them, suffer with them.
The different stories make it easy for me as a reader to immerse myself in other realities.
Even if they are not overflowing with happiness and joy, a clear recommendation for the present time.
Helene Hegemann "Schlachtensee: Stories"
2022, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, ISBN-13 978-3-462-00168-6
Price: Hardcover €23, e-book €19.99, 272 pages (different format) - Order here!
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Peter Mohlin, Peter Nystrom: "The Other Sister"
Peter Mohlin, Peter Nystrom "The Other Sister" © Harper Collins
John Adderley is investigating his second case in Karlstad, Sweden.
The CEO of a successful new dating app is found murdered.
The sister of the dead quickly becomes the focus of investigations.
Both women have always had a difficult relationship, characterized by envy and dependency.
The deeper John delves into the sisters' past, the clearer it becomes that the murder is just one piece in the puzzle of a crime on a much larger scale.
As John follows the trail, the old life he thought he left behind in the US catches up with him.
And with deadly force.
HarperCollins
Swedish crime food at a high level.
Even the first volume developed an addictive factor.
This is no different with the second volume about former FBI agent John Adderley, who lives as a police officer in Sweden under a new name.
The story develops slowly but steadily.
As a reader, I was sucked in and could hardly put it down.
An absolute must for all crime fans from the far north this summer.
Peter Mohlin, Peter Nystrom "The Other Sister"
2022, HarperCollins ISBN-13 978-3-749-90364-1
Price: Hardcover €22, e-book €16.99, 384 pages (different format) - Order here!
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If you are looking for more thrillers, you should take a closer look at "Black Light".
Max Seeck's "Devil's Net" or these 5 novels by Ken Follett are also worth reading.
