Martin Suter
Allmen und die Libellen

»Conman Allmen is a typical Suter character, enmeshed in half-truths and complicated relationships. Suter’s finely tuned mixture of tension and humour whets the appetite for the next episodes in the ›Allmen‹ series.«Financial Times Deutschland

»A refined game of cat and mouse, in which little actually is as it seems.«Focus

»Martin Suter reaches a huge readership with his novels. He writes exciting, well constructed, almost cinematic, stories; he catches his readers with ingenious, streamlined plots.«Der Spiegel

»With Allmen’s first appearance Martin Suter has managed much more than simply a variation on the old detective partnership theme. The novel provides a sort of backstory, which explains how the partnership came about. In ›Allmen and the Dragonflies‹ Martin Suter has presented us with an IOU, and we, the creditors, can see from what we have had so far that he is not going to default on it. We look forward to the punctual payment of the next instalment.«Die Welt

»Martin Suter is an extremely supple writer. He draws his figures deftly and concisely, gives them a good number of quirks and from the outset makes them into brand names, so to say.«Frankfurter Rundschau

»Instead of gory horror scenes, Suter serves up enjoyable, understated, slightly old fashioned detective fare, which leaves us hungry for more.«stern.de

»One could imagine few things more relaxing than a second novel with this team in the leading roles.«Spiegel Online

»In ›Allmen and the Dragonflies‹ Martin Suter has once again created a small masterpiece – with a detective partnership which just has to go into serial production!«Brigitte

»A very nice picaresque novel.«Weser-Kurier

»Suter writes in the same nonchalantly and ironically elegant way as Allmen lives. Johann Friedrich von Allmen is no ordinary detective, but a true Suter hero.«Tages-Anzeiger

»Martin Suter confidently blurs the boundary between entertainment and literature in his elegantly and apparently effortlessly narrated stories. Good entertainment in the enchantingly old-fashioned way – best read over coffee and cakes in your favourite café.«NDR

»This is what we’ve been waiting for for a long time, even if we didn’t want to admit it. The revival of what is actually the archetypal British social detective story. More please.«Berliner Morgenpost

»An exquisite pleasure. An ingenious detective paper chase.«Kölnische Rundschau