Book tips fall 2023
Great crime novels
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Anyone who loves books never goes to bed alone! So that there is no rude awakening, we have found the best new books of the season for you. Have fun with our favorite crime novels for fall 2023!
Alex Beer – Felix Blom: The Shadow of Berlin
Alex Beer – the Austrian’s actual name is Daniela Larcher – has become an expert in historical matters in recent years Developed crime novels. This also has to do with her old life; Larcher is a trained archaeologist. And it is also an archaeologist with whom the second case of their new investigator Felix Blom begins in the winter of 1879. A dead one, to be precise, because the coffin of Eduard Rohland, recently deceased, is broken open in the crypt of the Berlin Church of St. Hedwig. Because nothing was stolen and the body remained undamaged, the police quickly stopped their investigation. Blom and his partner Mathilde Voss are commissioned by the dead man’s sister to investigate the mysterious crime. And they realize: The murder of two small bandits has a direct connection to their case. How the former master thief Blom, still a thorn in the side of the police, approaches the solution together with Mathilde is fast-paced, entertaining and exciting. (336 p., Limes)
Christof Weigold – The Bad Father
Private detective Hardy Engel was innocently imprisoned for five and a half years. When he was released in 1929, his field of activity, Hollywood, had changed – the film village had become a glittering metropolis, and talkies had put many silent film stars out of work. But not Hardy Engel: He is supposed to investigate the (confirmed) death of director Thomas Ince, who died on Randolph Hearst’s yacht… Opulent, superbly researched and brilliantly written! (624 p., Kampa)
Michael Kobr – Sun over Gudhjem
Michael Kobr? This is the guy who, together with Volker Klüpfel, invented the Allgäu Inspector Kluftinger 20 years ago. The Kempten-born author is now taking a break from both. And sends Lennart Ipsen to investigate. Namely on Bornholm, where the newly transferred Interpol police officer wants to deal with burnout and divorce. But hygge is not: In his first week, pig farmer Kristensen is, well: smoked, to death in his own smokehouse. (416 p., Goldmann)
Heinrich Steinfest – Painting of a Murder
Markus Cheng actually has his own worries; a “space claim” is growing in his head. But his job is to address other people’s concerns, such as Astrid Roschek’s. She sends the Viennese investigator Ms. Wolf and her assistant Cheng to Australia, where her husband Oliver, a wombat researcher, has not returned from an expedition. There the duo comes across four strange German lottery winners… This language, this fantasy: Steinfest is great. (288 p., Piper)
Katrine Engberg – Ember Trail
Five books about the Copenhagen investigator duo Kørner/Werner have made Katrine Engberg a crime superstar. Now the Dane is sending a new heroine into the race with Liv Jensen. She is in her late 20s and is a private detective due to circumstances, without a case. That changes when an ex-colleague from the police asks her for help in a cold case, the murder of a journalist. But two other deaths also concern her. Suddenly connections become apparent. (T: Hanne Hammer, 464 p., Piper)