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Synopsis
“A natural storyteller who, just like Patricia Highsmith, is interested in teasing out the catastrophes that result from the banal coincidences of daily life.”—Weltwoche
When Erika, an attractive local heiress, falls to her death near her lakeside villa, the police conclude it was a tragic accident. Scholten, a longtime employee of Erika’s, isn’t so sure. He knows a thing or two about the state of her marriage and suspects an almost perfect crime. Scholten’s maverick investigation into the odd, inexplicable details of the death scene soon buys him a ticket for a most dangerous ride.
This beautifully crafted thriller, set in a European world of small-town hypocrisy, was a bestseller made into the film Glatteis.
In 2009 Hans Werner Kettenbach won the Glauser award (Germany's most prestigious crime writing prize) for lifetime literary achievement.
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Kettenbach is 75 and still writing. He published his first novel age 50 and his most recent one in May 04. In all Kettenbach has produced twelve works of fiction of which five, including Black Ice, were made into films.Previous jobs he has held include court stenographer,football journalist, foreign correspondent and newspaper editor. Translator of The Snowman.
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Enjoying its first English translation, this 1982 novel delves into the unpleasant psyche of one Jupp Scholten. A longtime employee of a German engineering firm, Jupp swipes company cigars, harasses the secretary, berates the laborers, and passes the buck whenever possible. His personal life is a mess, too. Jupp visits hookers on the way home, drinks to excess, and shuts out his emotionally needy wife in favor of a beloved cat. But when firm heiress Erika Wallmann dies after taking an improbable tumble at her lake house, Jupp takes a step on the unfamiliar path to redemption by setting out to finger her husband for murder. Sure, his investigation is driven by bitterness and self-interest, but Jupp soon develops a plausible theory of the crime, which he methodically tests out between schnapps binges. The question is, Will he become an unlikely hero or find himself drawn too far into the mind of a killer? In what amounts to a virtuoso shaggy-dog story, Kettenbach provides an answer that's either darkly humorous or melancholically tragic, depending on how black the reader's heart proves to be. Frank Sennett
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- PublisherBitter Lemon Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1904738087
- ISBN 13 9781904738084
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages334
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