As of: February 29, 2024, 3:00 p.m
By: Felicitas Bogner
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Anna Schneider recently published the fourth volume of her successful crime series.
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The new volume of Anna Schneider’s “Grenzfall” series was published at the beginning of the year.
This time the Walchensee serves as a backdrop, among other things.
Walchensee
- It's that time again: The German-Austrian investigative team Bernhard Krammer with Alexa Jahn is once again taking a case to the Tölzer Land.
The recently published fourth volume of Anna Schneider's now very popular crime series “Grenzfall” is set, among other places, at Lake Walchensee.
“In the depths of guilt”: Walchensee as a backdrop
Under the title “In the Depths of Guilt,” the author, who lives in Munich and Lenggries, describes in almost 400 pages how her main protagonist Krammer investigates a mysterious missing person case.
He is looking for his missing colleague Roza Szabo, in whose apartment a male body wearing a diving mask was found.
That is also a special feature of the new release.
“I found it exciting that the commissioners have to investigate within their own ranks and repeatedly question their trust in their missing colleague,” says Schneider.
“It was also an exciting balancing act when writing.”
She came up with the idea of having a crime novel set on Lake Walchensee while researching the third volume of the “Grenzfall” series.
“I was on the way to Hall in Tirol with my husband when we took a break at the upper tip of Lake Walchensee,” she remembers.
“It was immediately clear to me that this was the plot for another crime thriller.
There's just something about the beautiful lake embedded in the mountains.
I wanted to break up the great setting with a criminal case.” They confirmed their further conflicts with the Walchensee in the spontaneous decision.
“Walchensee is the second deepest lake in Germany after Lake Constance.
The depth, the cold, everything worked well.”
Dead man with diving mask found in missing detective's apartment
It made sense to have some aspects of the story take place underwater.
“Because I don't dive myself, I researched it extensively.” It was all the more pleasing that a good friend of the author, a scuba diver, didn't find any errors in his reading before the local crime novel went to print.
“Some people talk to specialists before or while writing, but I quickly become overwhelmed by all the information and ideas.”
The mother of the family gets inspiration for her cases from newspaper reports from the region.
After all, she got the idea for the entire “Border Case” series from a newspaper report about a missing hiker in Lenggries.
More crime novels already in the works
The plot of the fifth volume - which Schneider is currently writing and is scheduled to appear in 2025 - is also hinted at with a fictional message on the last page of the current book.
“I like to give my readers riddles,” she says with a laugh about her self-written report about a mysterious accident between Einöd and Bad Tölz.
In the fifth volume, she already reveals that much, the northern district is included as a backdrop for the first time.
“A lot of it takes place in Bad Tölz, but there is also a scene in Geretsried.”
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Anna Schneider is sure that she won't run out of local fabric any time soon.
After all, volumes six and seven are already under contract with Fischer-Verlag.
“It's just that I always prefer to win the region, so sometimes it's almost difficult for me to let bad things happen here,” says the Cologne native humorously.
In addition to ideas, the series is also not lacking in success.
“In the Depths of Guilt” even briefly made it onto the Spiegel bestseller list.
Book
The crime novel “Borderline: In the Depths of Guilt” by Anna Schneider is available in bookstores.
The price is 12 euros.
ISBN: 978-3-596-70819-2
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