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Mark Boog – I Understand the MurdererA beastly murder from thirty years ago lies on the detective’s desk – a cold case. It is the lastjob before he retires. He considers reopening it totally unnecessary, because there are nonew facts in this rumor-laden case, better known as ‘the Mill Murder’.The probable murderer was caught and, after a convincing testimony by his spouse, released.No one understood why she wanted to clear him of the charges of the murder of his younglover: sixteen bullets, the pistol emptied twice. What was her motive? And why has she, nowa widow, begun an affair with the new investigating officer?The old mill lies just out of town and is still a meeting place for courting couples. Thedetective visits the crime scene and tries to get inside the murderer’s mind. He makes love tothe murderer's wife, buys a pistol and makes preparations for a realistic reconstruction of theevent with his young assistant.Rights sold to:Germany, DuMontNominated for:BNG New Literatureprize 2010AKO Literature Prize 2009We read his police report as a testament, a confession left behind in which the tensioncontinuously mounts. Just as the writer of detective stories seeks the perfect murder – moreso than the career criminal for whom it is enough not to be caught – so the detective longsfor the perfect murderer.‘I Understand the Murderer is a flawlessly written novel. But it is also a page turner, fit forthe thriller section of any book store. ’ – Vrij Nederland‘In this masterly novella, Boog shows that a good thriller is about the reflection betweendetective and killer. To devour in one breath, to the final letter.’ – VN Detective & Thrillergids 2010 ****Author: Mark BoogAuthor: Mark BoogTitle: I Understand the Murderer (literary thriller)Title: Fate Always Falls on Jonah (fiction)Original title: Ik begrijp de moordenaarOriginal title: Het lot valt altijd op JonaPublished: 2009 Published: 2011Size: 192 pages / 39.000 wordsSize: 256 pages / 60.000 wordsMark Boog – Fate Always Falls on JonahA flamboyant parade. A big hospital bed, pushed by two serious looking nurses. One of themis also carrying an IV pole. In the bed an observant viewer can just spot a young boy, sleepingrolled up on his side with the blanket pulled up to his forehead.On a Thursday Jonas Zomer is carried into the children’s hospital by his parents Daan andSandra. Troubled weeks follow in which the child balances between life and death.Sandra stays by Jonas’ side day and night and starts to view the hospital more and more like aliving creature, a monster that has swallowed her son and her whole. The puzzling attacksthat Jonas has to deal with and its consequences, doctors and nurses with their well intendedcliché language, strange patients, rude visitors, the labyrinth-like structure of the hospital,everything alienates Sandra from the outside world en inevitably also from Daan.Fate Always Falls on Jonah tells us how a good relationship can be put under pressure bymajor events and how vulnerable and persistent a seemingly defenseless child can be. Mark Boog based a major part of thisnovel on the detailed hospital reports he received after the hospitalization of his youngest son. For this subject he found aprecision in tone and language that enthralls both readers and reviewers. Like he did in I Understand the Murderer and hisaward winning poetry.