Star business lawyer Urs Blank, forty-five years old, specialist for merger negotiations, has his feelings under control. He has learned not to leave himself wide open, but to make use of the openness of others. But then his life runs off the rails. A trip with hallucinogenic mushrooms leads to a dangerous change of personality, from which no-one succeeds in saving him. Blank flees into the forest. Until he finally comes to understand: there is only one way to free himself from this nightmare.

The bestselling crime novel series about the gentleman crook Allmen and his assistant Carlos sold more than 800.000 copies in German alone and was adapted for TV in 2017 by UFA fiction.

This fifth episode of the witty series revolves around lovers of art and the art of love.

Fine porcelain can be made into harmless figurines, or sexy artworks. Allmen and Carlos come across a secret hoard of valuable porcelain figures for lovers of explicit erotic depictions. A case that makes them work up quite a sweat because they are not investigating entirely of their own volition: A blackmailing accomplice has them in the palm of his hand.

Small World is a case study, social novel and thriller at one and the same time. Konrad Lang, in his mid-sixties, is suddenly confronted by vivid pictures from his childhood. And the down-at-the-heel old man is drawn as if by magic to the villa of his former »family«, where people are reluctant to remember him. What is he up to? asks above all eighty-year-old Elvira Senn, the incontestable head of the family and grand old lady of the renowned Swiss Koch works. She is irritated by Konrad's growing powers of recollection - and with good reason: Elvira has something to hide. Konrad's childhood and youth were extremely unusual. As the illegitimate child of a maidservant, and playmate - or lackey - of a millionaire's son of the same age, he grew up in the world of the rich without ever being accepted into it. And now the confused old man wants only one thing: to be accepted into the bosom of the family, which did not always treat him well. Elvira Senn believes he is in need of care and takes him in. But as time goes on she feels more and more threatened by Konrad, particularly as he finds, unexpectedly, a protectress among the members of the family. A dramatic race begins, a race against time, against a mysterious illness, and against the old lady's increasing panic. It ends in an almost cheerful finale.

A fascinating novel about a man in a life's crisis. A psychothriller about a male friendship. An exciting crime story against the background of a highly topical chapter of our everyday lives.

The Allmen series – over one million copies sold!

The bestselling crime novel series about the gentleman crook Allmen and his assistant Carlos has sold over a million copies in German alone and was first adapted for TV in 2017 by UFA fiction.

In the sixth episode of the stylish series Allmen’s International Enquiries investigates on Ibiza, the Mediterranean island of the super-rich.

An anonymous invitation lures Allmen to an exclusive property in Ibiza. An old man awaits him by a large pond and shows him his valuable many koi. One of the trusting fish – the most valuable one – has disappeared.
Allmen’s International Enquiries receives the brief of finding ›Boy‹, worth almost a million Euro. Allmen and his crew find a way of discreetly accessing the exclusive world of the island’s high society, and gain insight into a peculiar passion for collecting. 

This compilation of further stories from the ›business class‹ looks at the self-servicing mentality of top management. At the enormous efforts made to take a real break, for once. At autistic decision-makers and their polar opposite – bosses who would genuinely like to be modern, but are constantly held back by their staff. At people's willingness to feel sexually harassed. At managers sitting in the lotus position. And, time and again, at the infinitesimal gradations on the career scale and those seemingly trivial yet highly symbolic gestures that influence one's chances of promotion or demotion upon it.

An edge-of-the-seat thriller and a great novel about the world we live in, about people on the margins of society and about those who speculate on big money.

A creature that enchants people: a small pink elephant that glows in the dark like an alien. Only one person knows where it comes from: the genetic scientist Roux. He has big plans for this global sensation. Or is it something sacred that must be hidden and protected? That’s what Kaung thinks, a Burmese elephant-whisperer who was present at the animal’s birth. An exploration of borderline territories, in more ways than one.

A Business Soap Tobler is new at the company, and feels like it, too. But he is convinced: it was the real deal, switching from TYLCO to their competitor, CRONSA. Because for years someone had been in his way, stopping him from getting promoted. And Tobler wants to go far. CRONSA is known for being a dynamic place to work, not a paradise for layabouts. But unfortunately a surprise awaits him on his very first day. Once again, there is something for everyone here: The boss, »a little over-stretched by his career, incapable of organising himself or even of managing to fill his own cup with vending machine coffee«, the secretary »underpaid but indispensable«, or the unappreciated qualities of female competitors: »She had him under her control. Because she had studied him. Something that men are not capable of. They judge others by their own standards. A typical male error.« And last but not least, an insight into whether »them up there« really have everything under control: »The lights are on too often at night in the accounts department.«

A well-to-do bachelor, who sees no more promise in love. A beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. A picture and its price. An auction, which causes an uproar in the art community – and a few who come up short in their desire for the big money. Adrian Weynfeldt, mid-fifties, bachelor, upper middle class, art expert at an international auction house, lives in an expansive apartment in the city centre. He is done with love. Until one day a younger woman persuades him – against his customary practice – to take her home with him. The next morning, she is hanging over the street, holding on to the balcony railing and threatening to jump. Adrian is able to dissuade her, but from now on she makes him responsible for her life. Weynfeldt's settled life becomes untracked – until he finally realizes that nothing is the way it appears.

Two writers offer an insight into their conversations. Whether on a sun lounger or at the bar, by the sea or in the city, these two are fizzing with wit. Everything is potential material for conversation: swimming trunks, weddings, glitter, LSD, cooking, money, birthdays - the more everyday or odd it is, the better! And because no life is purely fun, not even for the famous, the conversations even take a serious turn at times. But only at times.

Is it crazy to think that you can ›turn back‹ time? Peter Taler certainly thinks so when he first gets wind of what Knupp, the old man who lives opposite him, is planning. Because he wants to make the seemingly impossible, possible. The first thing Taler notices is that strange things are happening in the house opposite, where eighty-year-old Knupp lives. He starts to spy on him and record the goings-on with his camera, but by the time he realises he is being spied on too, he is already tangled up in the events on the other side of the street. Old Knupp, who lost his wife twenty years ago, is convinced that descending like Orpheus into the realm of the dead is not the only way to find your way back to a loved one. And he is not alone in his convictions, sharing this theory with famous minds such as Einstein and Aristoteles. But putting it into practise is not that easy. In fact, it is practically impossible. But this is where Taler comes in.

In a villa on Zurich’s hillside lives aging Dr Stotz, surrounded by portraits of a young woman. Melody was once his fiancée, but shortly before the wedding – more than forty years ago – she vanished. Stotz has never recovered from his loss.

To organise his estate, Stotz hires a young student who urgently needs this job. Little by little, Tom begins to wonder whether Stotz is really who he pretends to be.
On a Greek island, he stumbles across a peculiar trail.

A highly valuable painting of dahlias by Henri Fantin-Latour has been stolen, and Allmen International Inquiries is commissioned to take on the investigation. This is most definitely a case for private investigator Johann Friedrich von Allmen, his assistant Carlos and his captivating life partner María Moreno, who has been enhancing the duo of late – and no less juicy than the two previous cases. The picture was already stolen property before it exchanged unrightful owners. And the old lady in whose possession it was until recently – Dalia Gutbauer, a very rich heiress and owner of a now slightly run-down luxury hotel – has enough money to simply buy a new Fantin-Latour without making a dent in her fortune. So why is she so attached to the picture? It takes Allmen a long time to see the slippery surface he is investigating, dealing with shady crooks as well as his own kind: experts in not having any money, with more demands than means. But there is one thing which is even more dangerous: aging men with young women.

Maravan, 33, a Tamil asylum seeker, is working as a kitchen hand in a top hotel in Zurich, at a level far below his abilities. For Maravan is a gifted and passionate cook. In Sri Lanka his great aunt had introduced him to the art of cooking, and not least into the secrets of aphrodisiac cuisine. When he is fired, his colleague Andrea encourages him into a deal of a very special kind: joint catering for love menus. At first they cook for couples with whom they are put in touch by a sex therapist. But word gets around about the success of Love Food, and a much wealthier clientele starts showing an interest: men from the world of politics and business – and from the grey zones on their margins. Maravan is worried that the business could become ›unsavoury‹ – and indeed it does. But he is in urgent need of the money in order to enable his family back in Sri Lanka to survive.

Perhaps you are already a ›dead man walking‹, but you just don't know it yet? Or a capacity that has become overcapacity, ballast that is about to be thrown overboard? And what is the most elegant way for a boss to part ways with a ›cost centre‹? By financing, if possible, his or her own pay rise? The backdrop for each volume of Suter's Business Class stories is the daily reality of the business world, a world that has grown harsher with every passing year. Dismissals are simply part of the daily agenda, while the pressure of competition has become the stuff our nightmares are made of. All the more reason to resort to the only known panacea: put your feet up, relax and have a laugh – ›among friends‹!