OLIVER BOTTINI
MORD IM ZEICHEN DES ZEN. Ein Fall für Louise Bonì/
MURDER IN THE SYMBOL OF ZEN. A Case for Louise Bonì
A crime Novel, 384 pp., new edition, Autumn 2015
German Crime Fiction Prize 2005
»It has been a long time since anyone started out so strongly, so visually.« Die Zeit
»Exceptional crime novel« taz
The first case for Louise Bonì
Louise Bonì, Chief Inspector with the crime squad, 42 years old, divorced, is faced with a dreary winter weekend and the shadows of the past. The memories of the dead and old flames are disrupted by a call from the department chief, and Louise gets the strangest assignment of her career: She is to find a Japanese monk, who is wandering through the snowy winter wasteland to the east of Freiburg in sandals and cowl, and find out what he is up to. Reluctantly she sets off. When she catches up with the monk, two things become very apparent: He is injured and he is on the run. Louise manages to dig up the background information with some difficultly and comes across a terrible crime, in whose wake her own life will undergo significant changes.
Rights sold to: People’s Press (Danish); Standaard Uitgeverij (Dutch); MacLehose Press (English World); Éditions de l’Aube (French); Alexandra - Pecsi Direkt (Hungarian); Beit Casa (Italian); Dolnoślaskie (Polish); Tritonic (Rumanian)