Foreign Rights Catal 2005

10
DETECTIVE AND GENERAL FICTION
Günter Ohnemus
When the Right Time Had Passed
320 pages, 3-426-19608-5
September 2005
The story of a melancholy ex-Casanova
– a book like a Truffaut movie
Robert Schirmer, gets invited to his hometown
of Munich by his old friend Susannah
Timmermann. Robert is an author who has
lived in America for many years. His return
to Munich stirs memories of his childhood,
his youth, but above all of the two great
loves of his life. When his adolescent love
Una left him, Robert thought he was going
to die. His marriage to the American Carol
failed as well, though she gave him the
greatest thing in his life, their daughter
Allie. In addition to the affairs that Robert
had on a regular basis, it was mostly his
lack of success as a writer that undermined
his relationship with Carol.
Susannah is looking for her former love,
Harry Willemer, who disappeared some
time ago. She thought she found something
in Robert’s last book that could lead
her to Harry, and that’s why she’s asking
her old friend to help her fi nd him. Robert
agrees to do so, and in doing so irritates
not only people who could pose a danger
to him, but also the most important person
in his life: his daughter Allie ...
Günter Ohnemus is a prizewinning author
(f. ex. Alfred Kerr Preis), a literary critic,
and a translator. He lives in Munich.
Previously published by Knaur Reise in
die Angst.
Kari Köster-Lösche
The Flood Brings Death
350 pages, 3-426-19704-9
February 2005
Historical detective story featuring a
likeable investigator and a windswept
coastal setting
Germany’s North Sea Coast, 1894: City
planner Sönke Hansen knows that the
only way to save the population of the
small islands just off the coast is to construct
a dike. Powerful political interests
representing the Prussian authorities are
against such a construction, but Hansen
knows that the endangered people –
mostly part of the Danish minority – need
someone to stick up for them.
Hansen has a personal stake in the matter
as well. His own fi ancée, who engaged in
the outlawed activity of teaching Danish to
children, was deported and has disappeared
without a trace. His other problem
is that he can’t convince the residents of
the narrow peninsula of Langeneß to give
up the land necessary to have the dike
built.
Suddenly, there’s news of a corpse that
has been found on the very piece of land
that’s being contested. Soon the mayor
arrives and asks Hansen to help him solve
the murder.
Kari Köster-Lösche, born 1946, grew up
in Sweden in a coastal area. Since age 10
she has lived on Langeneß. She has
made a name for herself with several historical
novels.
Michael Böckler
Vino Criminale – A Culinary Case for
Hippolyt Hermanus
400 pages, 3-426-19694-8
August 2005
The wine-loving detective is back for a
taste of murder in northern Italy
Hippolyt Hermanus, wine connoisseur and
former police psychologist, was looking
forward to dolce vita as he began his vacation
in Tuscany. But then he gets a call
from his old friend Roberto, and that puts
an end to la dolce vita, because Roberto’s
charming daughter Sabrina has had an
accident, and she’s in a coma in a Turin
hospital. So our hero Hippolyt, known as
“Hipp,” heads for the beautiful city of Turin.
Hipp soon discovers that there’s something
fi shy about the accident; Hippolyt
also fi nds out that the winegrower Gianfranco,
the father of Sabrina’s friend Eva-
Maria’s, has disappeared without a trace.
In the course of his investigations, Hipp is
accompanied by gourmet and wine lover
Sergente Viberti. Hipp’s detective work
leads him to some sumptuous meals,
many local points of interest throughout
northern Italy, and of course into dangerous
situations...
Michael Böckler’s unique concept of
travel-oriented suspense novels has
earned him a faithful following. His previous
novels include Vintage Murder and
Died Listening to Verdi.