Status: 15.01.2024, 17:08 PM
By: Sven Trautwein
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Crime novels and thrillers are a good escape from everyday life, provide suspense and often a psychological look at the characters.
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Crime novels are diverse. Every month, new, exciting titles are released that are worth a closer look. Crime novels have been popular for decades. Many current situations that do not appear in other genres are only perceived by us as readers through these stories. The psychological moment, not only to convict the perpetrator, but also to characterize society in more detail, is what makes it so appealing for the author and the reader alike. Here are four thrillers that will provide suspense in February.
Arne Dahl provides psychological suspense in his crime novels. Other titles will also be released in February and promise thrills. © VIADATA/Imago/Kampa (Assembly)
Susanne Goga "The Devil of Tempelhof"
Leo Wechsler is now investigating Susanne Goga's ninth Berlin crime novel. The new case promises to bring excitement from the capital again. Again, the question of who the murderer is remains open. Get involved in the investigation. Here you can find more crime thrillers set in Berlin. For crime prize winner Johannes Groschupf, Berlin is the perfect city for a dark crime thriller, as he said in an interview with IPPEN. MEDIA explains.
February 1929: A man is found murdered in a green area on the banks of the Blanke Hölle water. He is identified as Dr. Ferdinand Clasen, who lived nearby in a house popularly known as the Haunted Villa. There are indications that Dr. Clasen was very generous in prescribing medication as long as the fee was right. A motive for murder?
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Susanne Goga "The Devil of Tempelhof"
2024 dtv, ISBN-13 978-3-423-22047-7
Price: available for pre-order, paperback 13 €, 400 pages
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Paul Auster "The New York Trilogy"
After his current novel "Baumgartner", the new edition of his New York trilogy is expected in February. The English Guardian describes it as a series that can hold a candle to the work of the Irish Nobel Prize winner for literature Samuel Beckett. A must for oyster fans. The anthology contains the three crime novels "City of Glass", "Cast Shadow" and "Behind Closed Doors".
All three captivate the reader with cleverly laid out lures. But soon the superficially logical connections no longer seem to be right. Perpetrators mysteriously become victims, persecutors become persecuted. Step by step, even the independent observer, whether reader or detective, becomes entangled in a game with his own expectations.
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Paul Auster "The New York Trilogy"
Translated from the American by Joachim A. Frank
2024 Rowohlt, ISBN-13 978-3-499-01450-5
Price: available for pre-order, paperback 16 €, 416 pages
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Patricia Cornwell "Pale Corpse"
Even though Kay Scarpetta has already investigated in several crime novels, the reader is not yet aware of every facet of the fascinating character. In "Leichenblass" there are deep glimpses of Scarpetta that are new and promise an exciting look at the main character. For Der Spiegel, Patricia Cornwell is considered the most successful thriller author in the world.
Protests in front of the courthouse, live coverage, a flurry of camera flashes – the sensational murder trial, in which Dr. Kay Scarpetta has to testify as the main witness, is not only a media spectacle, it resembles a witch hunt. For the public and the prosecutor, the verdict has long been clear: Gilbert Hooke brutally murdered his fiancée after an argument, desecrated her body and threw it into the Atlantic. But experienced forensic scientist Scarpetta can prove that her late colleague, who performed the autopsy, missed important evidence...
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Patricia Cornwell "Pale Corpse"
Translated by Karin Dufner
2024 Kampa, ISBN-13 978-3-311-12569-3
Price: available for pre-order, hardcover €22.90, 416 pages
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Arne Dahl "Silent Scream"
After the end of his series about the investigators Berger and Blom in "Zero equals one", the new Arne Dahl is eagerly awaited. As a representative of Nordic noir crime novels, the suspense is kept high here as well and certainly lasts until the last page. For Dahl, it is the prelude to a new series about Detective Inspector Eva Nyman. The social criticism repeatedly addressed in his crime novels is also likely to appear in the new book.
First it hits a corporate boss in the steel industry, then a marketing manager in the service of the car lobby: In Sweden, homemade bombs kill two people before the attacker contacts the police – and threatens more. A climate activist gone astray, it seems, babbling about sin, holy wrath and revenge in his letters.
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Arne Dahl "Silent Scream"
Translated from Swedish by Kerstin Schöps
2024 Piper, ISBN-13 978-3-492-07241-0
Price: available for pre-order, paperback 17 €, 464 pages
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