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<strong>foreign</strong> <strong>rights</strong> spring 08<br />
Gisa Klönne<br />
Nights Without Shadow<br />
More than 80.000 copies of<br />
Silent Is the Forest sold<br />
fiction/crime<br />
Silent Is the Forest<br />
Ullstein +++ detective novel +++<br />
hardcover with dust jacket +++ € 18,-<br />
+++ 368 pages<br />
ISBN: 978-3-550-08633-5<br />
August 2005<br />
Rights sold to:<br />
Denmark, Forlaget Modtryk +++<br />
France, Editions Calmann-Lévy<br />
+++ The Netherlands, Uitgeverij<br />
Signature +++ Sweden, Albert<br />
Bonniers Förlag<br />
Cologne, just after midnight. A deserted urban railway station. A driver – stabbed to death. Soon<br />
after, a young woman is discovered nearby, unconscious; she had evidently been coerced into prostitution.<br />
During long, abnormally warm January nights Judith Krieger and her colleague Manni<br />
Korzilius try to make sense of these events. With great psychological insight, Gisa Klönne’s third<br />
novel transports us to a nightmarish world where violence against women is commonplace.<br />
It is a wet night when Judith Krieger is called to the scene of a murder: the driver of an urban<br />
train is lying next to his train; he has been stabbed to death. Her search for evidence or witnesses<br />
produces nothing whatsoever. Moreover, she’s worried about a young woman. She was found<br />
lying near the railway line and is in a coma. Who is she? The victim of human traffickers, a prostitute?<br />
Is she from Eastern Europe? What happened to her?<br />
When Judith pursues her investigations with Manni Korzilius in the red light district, unresolved<br />
conflicts come to the surface: from her past, when, as a student, she worked in a women’s refuge.<br />
Deeply engrained beliefs, her own fears. And while Manni is increasingly perplexed by Judith’s<br />
behaviour, someone else has sensed her fragility: someone who tortures women and doesn’t shy<br />
away from murder. Someone who will become extremely dangerous for Judith.<br />
Gisa Klönne, born in 1964, has an MA in English language and literature. She is a writer<br />
and journalist and also lectures in creative writing and journalism. Her debut novel Der Wald ist<br />
Schweigen (Silent Is the Forest) was a great hit with the media as well as the public. With her second<br />
novel featuring Detective Judith Krieger, Unter dem Eis (Under the Ice), she attracted an even wider<br />
fan base. Both novels are currently being translated into several languages. Gisa Klönne lives in<br />
Cologne. www.gisa-kloenne.de<br />
Ullstein +++ detective novel +++ hardcover with dust jacket +++ 368 pages<br />
€ 19,90 +++ ISBN 978-3-550-08716-5 +++ February 2008<br />
Press comments on Silent Is the Forest:<br />
“Klönne is terrific.” Bücher<br />
“Klönne is a sensitive observer who will soon join the ranks of leading<br />
German crime writers if she keeps this up.” Der Standard<br />
Backlist<br />
Under the Ice<br />
Ullstein +++ detective novel +++<br />
hardcover with dust jacket +++ € 18,-<br />
+++ 368 pages<br />
ISBN : 978-3-550-08645-8<br />
August 2006<br />
Rights sold to:<br />
The Netherlands, Uitgeverij<br />
Signature +++ Sweden, Albert<br />
Bonniers Förlag<br />
contact Susanna Schäfer +++ susanna.schaefer@ullstein-buchverlage.de +++ phone +49 (0)30 23456 450 +++ fax +49 (0)30 23456 515
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