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Hans Werner Kettenbach | Glatteis | English Title: Black Ice<br>Novel, 272 Pages

Novel, Paperback
272 Pages
Published in March 2001

ISBN 978-3-257-23243-1

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Hans Werner Kettenbach
Glatteis

English Title: Black Ice

Of all places, it has to be at the idyllic holiday home by the lake that Erika, the attractive wife of engineer Wallmann, falls to her death. A tragic accident, the police say. An almost perfect murder, suspects Scholten, an employee of Wallmann who knows some ugly details about the Wallmanns’ marriage. Unaware that he is putting himself in considerable danger, he starts investigating the matter off his own bat.

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»A dark thriller in the Patricia Highsmith tradition. The slow build up to the cruel and bitter ending displays Kettenbach's skill and confirms his reputation as one of Germany’s leading thriller writers.«Sunday Telegraph

»A devilish dive into an obsessed mind. Despite, or because of, his many humorous quirks, the hero is also a convincing everyman.«Kirkus, starred review

»A beautifully translated thriller, not a drop of blood on its pages. The nastiness takes place off-stage which makes it all the more threatening.«BBC 2, Culture

»A dark thriller in the Patricia Highsmith tradition. The slow build up to the cruel and bitter ending displays Kettenbach’s skill and confirms his reputation as one of Germany’s leading thriller writers.«Sunday Telegraph

»›Black Ice‹ is a dark thriller in the Patricia Highsmith tradition ... The slow build-up to the cruel and bitter ending displays Kettenbach’s skill and confirms his reputation as one of Germany’s leading crime writers.«Sunday Telegraph

»A devilish dive into an obsessed mind by a prolific German crime writer.«Kirkus Reviews

»Kettenbach writes with a unique mixture of brittleness and tenderness, humour and melancholy, and his stories are always electrifyingly credible.«Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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