Ingrid Noll

Ingrid Noll was born in 1935 in Shanghai. She studied German philology and art history in Bonn, has three children and is a grandmother. After her children left home, she began to write crime stories, which all became instant bestsellers. ›Head Count‹ received the ›Glauser Prize‹ and is just one of her novels to have been successfully adapted for the screen. When it comes to the subject of care, Ingrid Noll knows about what she writes: her own mother reached the age of 106 and was never in an old people’s home. Ingrid Noll’s books have been published in 28 languages.

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»Ingrid Noll writes of that sense of cosiness that always comes to an abrupt end. She is, in reality, an idyllist, but a very sly one. And she is as cold-bloodedly determined to entertain as some of her characters are intent on murder.«Sender Freies Berlin

»Ingrid Noll is often referred to as Germany’s ›Queen of Crime‹, and she fully deserves this title.«The Sunday Times

»Ingrid Noll writes books based in a deceptive no-man’s-land between the crime thriller and the family drama, between women’s literature and cosy horror.«Der Spiegel