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C O N TA C T S & A G E N T S                                                                                                                                                                                                                   CONTENT

    ANDREA SEIBERT                  English language                             CONSTANZE CHORY                      Scandinavia
    RIGHTS DIRECTOR                                                              DEPUTY RIGHTS DIRECTOR               Dutch language
    T: ++49 89 38167-124                                                         T: ++49 89 38167-125                 Asia
    F: ++49 89 38167-324                                                         F: ++49 89 38167-325
    seibert.andrea@dtv.de                                                        chory.constanze@dtv.de

    NICOLA BIEG                     Greece, Turkey,                              SONJA SCHMIDT                        France, Italy, Spain,                  HIGHLIGHTS                                                                    4
    RIGHTS MANAGER                  Israel, Arab World, Africa                   RIGHTS MANAGER                       Portugal, South America,
    T: ++49 89 38167-127            Russia / Ukraine, Baltic States              T: ++49 89 38167-128                 Eastern Europe
    F: ++49 89 38167-327                                                         F: ++49 89 38167-328
    bieg.nicola@dtv.de
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                                                                                                                                                                                                           WOMEN’S FICTION                12

                                                                                                                                                                                                           CRIME                          14

                                                                                                                                                             INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER                                                     18

    MAINLAND CHINA                                   ISRAEL                                        ROMANIA
    Bejing Star Media Co. , Ltd.                     The Deborah Harris Agency                     Simona Kessler International Copyright Agency             EISELE VERLAG                                                                20
    Ms. Wang Xing                                    Ms. Efrat Lev                                 Ms. Simona Kessler
    wangxing@wstern.com                              efrat@thedeborahharrisagency.com              office@kessler-agency.ro

                                                                                                                                                             PREVIEW AUTUMN 2019                                                          24
    CZECH & SLOVAK REPUBLIC                          ITALY                                         SPANISH & PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
    Dr. Ivana Beil Literary Agent                    Berla & Griffini Rights Agency                Ute Körner Literary Agent
    Ms. Ivana Beil                                   Ms. Barbara Griffini                          Ms. Sandra Rodericks
    dribeil@aol.com                                  griffini@bgagency.it                          sandra.rodericks@uklitag.com

    DUTCH LANGUAGE                                   JAPAN (NON-EXCLUSIVE)                         TAIWAN (NON-EXCLUSIVE)
    Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency               Meike Marx Literary Agent                     Bardon Chinese Media Agency
    Ms. Marianne Schönbach                           Ms. Meike Marx                                Ms. Yu-Shiuan Chen
    m.schonbach@schonbach.nl                         meike.marx@gol.com                            yushiuan@bardon.com.tw

    FRANCE                                           KOREA                                         TURKEY
    Editio Dialog Literary Agency                    Momo Agency                                   Kalem Agency
    Dr. Michael Wenzel                               Ms. Geenie Han                                Ms. Nazlı Gürkaş
    dr.wenzel@editio-dialog.com                      geeniehan@mmagency.co.kr                      rights@kalemagency.com

    HUNGARY                                          POLAND
    DS Budapest Kft                                  AKF Agency
    Ms. Margit Gruber                                Ms. Anna Kolendarska-Fidyk
    dsmargo@t-online.hu                              akf.agency@hot.pl

    Translation by Rachel Reynolds
    Layout by Christine Bernath, dtv

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HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2019                                                                                                                                                                          HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2019

                                                                                    “I’ve been excited about Dear
                                                                                    Child from the minute I                                                                  ENGLPISLH
                                                                                                                                                                              SAM TEION
                                                                                    heard about it first and hav-                                                          TRAANVASILLAABLE
                                                                                    ing read it now I must say
                                                                                    I’ve totally loved it from the
                                                                                    beginning to its gripping end.
                                                                                    […] I think it ticks all the
                                                                                    right boxes for the current
                                                                                    thriller market around the                                   Flagship Title
                                                                                    globe.”

                                                                                    Stefanie Bierwerth,
                                                                                    Publisher-at-Large, Quercus

                                                                                                                                    And he called the light Day                                             Romy Hausmann
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Dear Child
                                                                                         “What an astute and exciting thriller!
© Astrid Eckert

                                                                                         What a sound!                              and the darkness he called Night.                                       432 pages
                                                                                                                                                                                                            February 2019
                                                                                         I’m completely captivated by Romy          Just like God.
                                                                                         Hausmann’s narrative voice. ”
                                                                                                                                    A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her
                      Romy Hausmann                                                      Melanie Raabe,                             two children follows the rules set by the father: Meals, bath-
                                                                                                                                    room visits, study time are strictly scheduled and meticulous-
                                                                                                                                                                                                            ROMY HAUSMANN was born in the former
                                                                                                                                                                                                            GDR in 1981, and became the chief editor of a
                                                                                                                                                                                                            TV station at age 24. There she has met a variety
                                                                                         Bestselling Author of The Trap
                                                                                                                                    ly observed. Oxygen comes from a “circulation machine”, food
                      Dear Child                                                                                                    is provided by the father only. He protects his family from the
                                                                                                                                    dangers lurking “out there” and makes sure that his children,
                                                                                                                                                                                                            of protagonists, whose stories she told: Stories
                                                                                                                                                                                                            of domestic abuse, Somalian refugees of war
                                                                                                                                                                                                            and neglected children. Since the birth of her
                                                                                                                                    conceived and born in captivity, will always have a mother              son she is working as a freelancer for several TV
                                                                                                                                    to look after them. One day Lena manages to flee – but the              formats. Dear Child is her thriller debut.
                                                                                                                                    nightmare continues. It seems as if her tormentor wants to
                                                                                                                                    get back what belongs to him. And then there is the question
                                                                                                                                    whether she really is the woman called “Lena”, who disap-
                                                                                                                                    peared without a trace 14 years ago.
                  • Film rights optioned pre-publication by Constantin Film
                                                                                                                                    Three people are liberated from years of hell on earth only
                                                                                                                                    to find unimaginable horror staring back at them. Romy
                  • For fans of Gone Girl and the Academy Award-winning motion picture Room                                         Hausmann has written an emotionally charged, high-caliber
                                                                                                                                    page-turner that gets right under your skin from the very first
                                                                                                                                    line.
                  • Rights sold: English Language, Czech Republic, The Netherlands (pre-empt)

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HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2019                                                                                                                                                                                                                      HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2019

                                         Frank Goldammer                                                                                                                                       Linus Geschke
                                         Summer Act                                                                                                                                            Tannenstein

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     © Heike Bogenberger
                                                                                                                                 © Jens Oellermann
                                                             BEST G
                                                            SELTLHIN
                                                                   OR
                                                                                             FRANK GOLDAMMER was
                                                                                             born in Dresden in 1975.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        SAM TEION
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     LINUS GESCHKE, born in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     1970 in Cologne, works as
                                                               AU                            A painter and varnisher by                                                                                              TR ANVASILLAABLE
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       A                             a freelance journalist for
240 pages                                                                                    trade, he began writing in his                          384 pages                                                                                       SPIEGEL ONLINE, Manager
February 2019                                                                                early twenties, self-publishing                         January 2019                                                                                    magazine, and the Frankfurter
                                                                                             his first novels. For dtv he has                                                                                                                        Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
                                                                                             written several successful                                                                                                                              He has won several journalism
A darkly humorous family saga                                                                historical crime thrillers set in                       Time of revenge                                                                                 prizes for his travel report-
from the successful crime fiction author                                                     Dresden and its surroundings.                                                                                                                           ages.
                                                                                             A single parent, he lives with                          When the Hiker comes, people die: eleven in the remote town of Tannenstein
On a hot summer weekend the old and critically ill patriarch Joseph invites his              his twin children in Dresden.                           near the Czech border, then a gas station attendant in the Harz region, and
family to his villa on the Baltic coast. The extremely rich man with a colorful                                                                      a real estate agent in the Allgäu area. The killer materializes out of nowhere,
past accepts death as what it is. However, before he goes, he is unyielding in                                                                       murders without warning, and vanishes without a trace. The only person who
his desire to see his entire family one last time. The relatives haven’t been on                                                                     stands in the Hiker’s way is Alexander Born, an ex-cop turned criminal. Years
speaking terms for years, but they all decide to come in the interest of their                                                                       ago, the Hiker killed his girlfriend, and now Born wants revenge. He soon finds
potentially approaching inheritance. Predictably the events escalate until, in the                                                                   himself embroiled in a hunt that will end where everything started: in Tannen-
truest sense of the word, everything explodes.                                                                                                       stein.

• Bestselling crime fiction author Frank Goldammer shows a new facet – 		                                                                            • Spiegel bestseller
  this time crime stays in the family                                                                                                                • For readers of Ian Rankin and Tess Gerritsen
• Total sales of Frank Goldammer’s books with dtv: 100,000 copies                                                                                    • A previous crime series by Linus Geschke is currently being filmed
• For fans of the film classic The Honey Pot
                                                                                                                                                     PRE-PUBLICATION PRAISE FOR TANNENSTEIN:

                                                                                                                                                     “In Tannenstein, Linus Geschke confronts readers with their own conscience -
                                                                                                                                                     how much is one life worth to you? The writing is just as tense as it is fabulous.”
                                                                                                                                                     Karla Paul, Buchkolumne.de

                                                                                                                                                     “More than just a bloody, eloquent thriller. Practically a sensation!”
                                                                                                                                                     Verena Thies, Bayerischer Rundfunk

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FICTION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     C U R R E N T A F FA I R S

                                                                                                                                                           Being political in times of “Alternative Facts”
                                            Martin Schneitewind                                                                                                                            Michael Köhlmeier
                                            At the Walls                                                                                                                                   Do Not Expect Me to Feign Ignorance
                                            of Paradise                                                                                                                                    Speeches against oblivion

                                                                                                                               © Heike Bogenberger
                                                                                                                                                                                           Established author Michael Köhlmeier has written and held numerous speeches over
                                                                                                                                                                                           the years which always reflect his deeply humanistic approach to all topics, both in
                                                                                                                                                                                           literature and in politics. In May 2018 he spoke to a large group of high-ranking poli-
                                                                                                                                                                                           ticians. “Do not expect me to feign ignorance,” he said and pointed out to his audience
                                                                ENGLPISLH                       Afterword by:                                                                              just how politics nowadays are increasingly accepting blatant racism and hatred under
                                                                 SAM TEION                      MICHAEL KÖHLMEIER born                                                                     the guise of “free speech”. His words are a bold commentary on today’s politics and
                                                              TRANSILLAABLE
                                                                    AVA                         1949 in Hard on Lake Con-                                  96 pages                        their subtle disintegration due to libel and malice.
     400 pages                                                                                  stance, lives in Hohenems/                                 November 2018
     March 2019                                                                                 Vorarlberg and Vienna.

     David Ostrich, an Orientalist from Toronto, is about to investigate the legends
                                                                                                                                                                                           Hannah Arendt
     from the book of Genesis on the Persian Gulf, when he receives an astonish-
     ing commission from the supervisor of a giant dam construction. Ostrich is                                                                                                            The Freedom to Be Free
     asked to track down the supervisor’s missing daughter and, while pumping the
     frightened residents of the local work camp for information, stumbles across                                                                                                          What is freedom, are we born free or is freedom conveyed to us by others? Can it be
     the secret that is holding together the desert nation.                                                                                                                                taken away? Is freedom only an absence of fear and constraint or does it not rather
                                                                                                                                                                                           imply the need to take part in the political and social discourse? This essay by Hannah

                                                                                                                               © Peter-Andreas Hassiepen
     At the Walls of Paradise is a dystopian novel acquainting us with a world in                                                                                                          Arendt was first published in German by dtv in 2018. Accompanied by Thomas
     which political and environmental changes trigger massive migration. Said                                                                                                             Meyer’s poignant afterword, the book obviously meets the spirit of the time and hit the
     dam construction also serves the purpose of closing borders against millions of                                                                                                       top ranks of the bestselling lists in Germany for months on end.
     refugees already on the move.
                                                                                                                                                           64 pages
     Interwoven with these topical issues are the eternal questions of man’s relation                                                                      January 2018
                                                                                                                                                                                           Rights for the essay: Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust
     to God and the quest for the Biblical paradise. A novel about the actuality of the         Translation by:                                                                            Rights for the afterword by Thomas Meyer: dtv
     book of Genesis and of the meaning of story-telling for our existence.                     RAOUL SCHROTT , born in
                                                                                                1964, received numerous
                                                                                                                                                                                           (sold to: Spain, The Netherlands)
                                                                                                awards, including the Peter
     A literary gem: Raoul Schrott lends his unique voice to Martin                             Huchel and Joseph Breit-
     Schneitewind.                                                                              bach Prize.                                                                                 William Shakespeare
     Accompanied by Michael Köhlmeier’s insightful comments.
                                                                                                                                                                                            The Strangers
                                                                                                                                                                                           An appeal for more compassion
                                                                                                                                                                                           Based on a fragment of a manuscript rediscovered in 2015, this text depicts the violent
                                                                                                                                                                                           revolt of the London citizens in the 16th century against the Hugenot refugees. 400
                                                                                                                                                                                           years after its creation, the text is still a plea for a humane society in times of radical
                                                                                                                                                                                           change. The editor and translator Frank Günther puts the fragment into a modern con-
                                                                                                                                                                                           text and brings this alarm call from times past into the broader, political view of today.

                                                                                                                                                           72 pages
                                                                                                                                                           September 2016                  Rights for the afterword by Frank Günther: dtv

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FICTION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        FICTION

                                          Christian Tielmann
                                          Immortality Isn’t a                                                                                                                                           dtv’s new imprint bold addresses generation Y readers with
                                                                                                                                                                                                        young, edgy fiction titles. Life in times of social media and globali-
                                          Solution Either                                                                                                                                               zation, gender debates, experiences of diversity and inclusion, and
                                                                                                                                                                                                        the overcoming of stereotypes are topics that bold takes on
                                          A Goethe-Schiller disaster

                                                                                                                                              © Jochen Nues
                                                                                                                                                                                                        − across communities and age groups, and beyond expectations.
                                          224 pages
                                          February 2019

                                                                                                    CHRISTIAN TIELMANN was
     In 2014, the crisis-shaken book market causes even the sales of works by German                born in 1971 in Wuppertal.
     classics Goethe and Schiller to plummet, which is why their publisher Cotta sends              He studied Philosophy and
     the two gentlemen (now 265 and 255 years old) on a reading tour. The itinerary                 German at Hamburg and
     will culminate in an open-air reading of Faust. Only reluctantly does Goethe agree             Freiburg. Today he lives in
     to this plan. How annoying that his friend Schiller always seems to be two steps               Detmold. He has been writing
     ahead of him, whether it’s in dealing with delayed trains, apathetic students, or              books for children, young
     an attractive bookseller traveling with them. And it doesn’t seem to get any better            adults, and adults since 1999.
     when Schiller develops new ideas on how to get things rolling…
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Maike Voss
                                                                                                                                                                                                        That’s What
                                                                                                                                                                                                        It Looks Like

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             © Gunter Glücklich
                        Einige
                        von
                        vielen
                                        Johanna Adorján                                                                                                                                                 When a Firefly Dies
         »... unter-
                                        Men                                                                                                                                                             In her debut novel, Maike Voß tells the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           MAIKE VOSS was born in 1995
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           in Hamburg, where she also
                                        Some of the many
       haltsam, klug,
         bösartig,
        saulustig...«
         MATTHIAS
          BRANDT
                                                                                                                                                                                                        story of Viola and Leon. They are the best of      completed her degree from the
                   ´
                                                                                                                                                                                                        friends − until they spend the night together      Technical Art Academy in 2018.
      JOHANNA ADORJAN                                                                                                             © Nadine Kunath             336 pages
                                                                                                                                                                                                        after a concert. For Leon, this is the fulfill-    She has chosen London as her
                                                                                                                                                              February 2019
                                                                                                                                                                                                        ment of everything he has been secretly long-      second home, which is where
                                        336 pages                                                                                                                                                       ing for. However, Viola panics, thinking she       she started writing her debut
                                        November 2018                                                                                                                                                   may have fallen for the wrong guy yet again,       novel That’s What it Looks Like
                           _
                                                                                                                                                                                                        and that their friendship would be over. She       When a Firefly Dies.
                                                                                                JOHANNA ADORJÁN, born                                                                                   leaves Leon’s apartment the next morning
     Jochen, Oliver, Bill − almost half of the human race is composed of men. They
                                                                                                in Stockholm in 1971, is a                                                                              without a word. Leon cannot and will not
     still set the tone for many issues, even though their facade started to crack a
                                                                                                journalist and writer. Her                                                                              accept Viola’s disappearance, and tries to
     long time ago. Enough of a reason to look more closely. What facets character-
                                                                                                bestselling biographical                                                                                figure out why she ran but without any luck.
     ize the other gender? With a woman’s eyes, Johanna Adorján forges into this
                                                                                                memoir An Exclusive Love has                                                                            Viola not only is hiding, but trying despa-
     world and describes what − more accurately, who − catches her eye: a philos-
                                                                                                been translated into sixteen                                                                            rately to get Leon out of her head. Because
     opher who has made a name for himself as a soccer player (Lothar), a serial
                                                                                                languages. Her collection                                                                               in the twinkling of an eye, she seems to have
     phone caller whenever he is on a train (Jürgen), a brilliant psychotherapist
                                                                                                of short stories, My 500 Best                                                                           vanished from the face of the planet.
     (Harald). Although some of the observations may seem familiar, others will be
                                                                                                Friends, was published in
     perplexing. However, one things is clear: men are like women − just different.
                                                                                                2013. She is a regular contrib-
                                                                                                utor to the Frankfurter Allge-
                                                                                                meine Zeitung’s arts section.

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WOMEN’S FICTION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               WOMEN`S FICTION

                                         Susanna Mewe                                                                                                                                                    Dora Heldt
                                         The Afterlife Can Stuff It                                                                                                                                      Three Women
                                                                                                                                                                                                         at the Lake

                                                                                                                                          © Wolfgang Frank

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  © Franz Schepers
                                         304 pages
                                         March 2019

                                                                                                  SUSANNA MEWE was born                                                                                                                                        DORA HELDT was born on
     Ghost meets My Best Friend’s Wedding                                                         in 1981 in North Rhine-West-                                                                                                                                 Sylt in 1961. A trained book-
                                                                                                  phalia and now lives in Berlin.                            576 pages                                                                                         seller, she lives in Hamburg to-
                                                                                                  She writes plays, novels and                               First published 2018                                                                              day. She has been a perennial
     Since the death of his wife, David has immersed himself in his professional life
                                                                                                  screenplays. Her work has re-                                                                                                                                presence on the bestseller
     and in caring for his eccentric father. Occasional attempts at romantic rendez-
                                                                                                  ceived several awards, includ-                                                                                                                               lists thanks to her novels,
     vous fail as a result of David’s shyness. Until he falls for Selma. However, David’s                                                                    Three friends, four lives − and a house by the lake
                                                                                                  ing the Munich Kammerspiele                                                                                                                                  crime fiction, short stories,
     deceased wife Elinor isn’t all that delighted about this development. As a ghost,
                                                                                                  Bursary, the Retzhof Drama                                                                                                                                   and columns. Her novels are
     she jealously watches over her husband, and eventually asks her medium Paula
                                                                                                  Prize and the Alfred Döblin                                They had been close friends since childhood: Marie, Alexandra, Friederike,                        regularly turned into films.
     for help.
                                                                                                  Scholarship from the Berlin                                and Jule. Regardless of where their lives took them, they gathered every Friday
                                                                                                  Academy of Arts.                                           before Pentecost, at Marie’s enchanting house by the lake. Marie, the sensitive
                                                                                                                                                             photographer, had held the four of them together, but that was a long time ago.
                                                                                                                                                             The message of Marie’s early death comes as a shock to all of them. Since their                   BEST G
                                                                                                                                                             quarrel ten years ago, they hardly have had any contact with each other. Marie
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              SELTLHIN
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     OR
                                                                                                                                                             presents a surprise to her friends: But then, they have to meet again.                            AU
                                                                                                                                                             Dora Heldt shifts stylistic gears and adopts a more serious tone: a story about
                                         Daniela Böhle                                                                                                       the loves and lies that shape our lives, and the value of friendship, and the joy of
                                                                                                                                                             remembering.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ENGLPISLH
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          SAM TEION
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       TRAANVASILLAABLE
                                         Marzipan Butterflies                                                                                                • # 1 Spiegel Bestseller: More than 160,000 copies sold
                                                                                                                                    © Sylvia Jungenkrüger    • Abridged version available (about 280 p. long instead of 576 p.)
                                                                                                                                                             • Rights sold to: Italy (pre-empt)

                                         320 pages
                                         March 2019

                                                                                                 DANIELA BÖHLE, born in
                                                                                                 1970, studied art history (fin-
     The sweetest seduction since the invention of cake                                          ished degree) and medicine
                                                                                                 (almost-finished degree) in
     Nina stares distractedly at the little bakery’s shop window: “Intern wanted” it
                                                                                                 Cologne and Bonn, and then
     says. Bakeries have always been places of longing for Nina. She has just never
                                                                                                 moved to Berlin in 1999,
     given in to that feeling. Now, with forty well behind her, she applies, takes an
                                                                                                 where she still lives with her
     unpaid leave from her job, and descends into the bakery every morning, as if
                                                                                                 two children. She has written
     entering a magical world. She never dreamed that she would find a new voca-
                                                                                                 a YA novel, regularly publishes
     tion, as well as a new love.
                                                                                                 in magazines and anthologies,
                                                                                                 and writes scripts for radio
                                                                                                 programs.

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CRIME FICTION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   CRIME FICTION

                                                                                                                                                                    Benjamin Cors Normandy crime series
                                       Hannah O’Brien                                                                                                               c. 432 pages / each title

                                       An Irish Wake (vol. V)                                                                                                                                          Jetsam (vol. I)
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Nicholas Guerlain is supposed to be looking

                                                                                                                                        © dtv / Heike Bogenberger
                                                                                                                                                                                                       after a French minister but accidentally knocks
                                                                                                                                                                                                       him to the red carpet when his attention is dis-
                                                                                                                                                                                                       tracted by a familiar figure – is that not Julie, his

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          © Markus Kirchgessner
                                       432 pages                                                                                                                                                       long-lost love who vanished two years ago?
                                       March 2019                                                                                                                                                      Nicholas is transferred home to the Normandy
                                                                                                                                                                                                       spa town of Deauville for disciplinary reasons.
                                                                                                HANNAH O’BRIEN is a jour-                                                                              Things go from bad to worse when he sets out to
     The dark side of the Emerald Isle                                                          nalist and author who lived in                                                                         investigate a crime that goes back decades...
                                                                                                Great Britain and Ireland for
     The famous and beloved Irish environmental activist Cathal Connor is discovered                                                                                                                                                                                   BENJAMIN CORS is a poli-
     brutally murdered. He had been recently seen on a talk show in which he had glibly
                                                                                                many years but now divides
                                                                                                her time between homes in
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Coastline (vol. II)                                             tical journalist and television
     and inventively argued for the protection of the forests south of Dublin. In her fifth     Cologne and on the banks of                                                                                                                                            presenter who spent many
     case, Galway’s Commissioner Grace O’Malley and her colleague Rory Coyne discov-            the Moselle. A regular visitor                                                                         Nicolas has rehabilitated himself as a body-                    years covering world news for
     er several inconsistencies in the allegedly exemplary life of the victim. Connor wasn’t    to Ireland, she is an expert on                                                                        guard. He is now in the employ of a wealthy                     evening news programmes
     only leading a double life with two families; he was also hiding a dirty secret.           Irish affairs.                                                                                         aristocrat in Normandy who has been receiving                   and in-depth political analysis.
                                                                                                                                                                                                       threatening letters for some time. Meanwhile,                   Today he works as a regional
     Just as in Tana French crime series, Hannah O’Brien uses the procedural to explore                                                                                                                in Deauville, police find the murdered body of                  political correspondent for a
     a topical subject in each of her novels, ranging from the microcosm of family life to                                                                                                             an under-age prostitute. Among her possessions                  broadcasting station. He grew
     the macrocosm of religion.                                                                                                                                                                        they discover a telephone number which turns                    up as a Franco-German na-
                                                                                                                                                                                                       out to belong to a dead man Nicolas has just                    tional and spent his childhood
                                                                                                                                                                                                       pulled from the Seine in the Normandy...                        summers in Normandy.

                                                                                                                                                                                                       Tidal Game (vol. III)
                                        Stefan Maiwald
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Bodyguard: the word that a dying man attempts                   Normandy crime series:
                                        The Corpses of Rialto                                                                                                                                          to scratch into the ground. A word that leads
                                                                                                                                                                                                       to Nicolas Guerlain, a bodyguard of the French
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Over 90,000 copies sold
                                                                                                                                  © Heike Bogenberger                                                  government. Nicolas realizes that a connection
                                                                                                                                                                                                       exists to the festivities on June 6, the memorial               Epreuve de traduction en
                                                                                                                                                                                                       day for the Allied invasion. Attacks have seem-
                                                                                                                                                                                                       ingly been planned for this day. Unexpected as-                 français à disposition
                                       304 pages                                                                                                                                                       sistance is provided by Julie, his former partner
                                       February 2019                                                                                                                                                   who has reappeared. But can he really trust her?

     The agent to the Doge Davide Venier is searching for clues: Within a short time
                                                                                               STEFAN MAIWALD was
                                                                                               born in 1971. The journalist,
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Beacon (vol. IV)
     span, three Venetians are murdered. At the same time, Portuguese merchants                amateur chef and enthusiastic
     are striving to undermine Venice’s dominance of the spice trade. Davide, dis-             golfer lives in Italy with his                                                                          Fear has settled across Vieux-Port. The town’s
     guised as a merchant, he is to uncover the conspiracy - and ends up landing               family and writes for various                                                                           residents are terrified of an old curse that pre-
     in the middle of the sea battle of Lepanto. Hardly back home, his girlfriend              papers and magazines. He is a                                                                           dicts they will all die in a flooding of the Seine.
     Veronica is abducted. The kidnappers demand a ransom for her life… the death              long-standing author for both                                                                           After the first victim dies, the mayor asks for
     of the Doge!                                                                              fiction and non-fiction at dtv.                                                                         Nicolas Guerlain’s help − but he turns down the
                                                                                                                                                                                                       request. At least, until another body appears.
     Total sales of Stefan Maiwald’s books with dtv: 100,000 copies                                                                                                                                    The priest has died an agonizing death in a tub
                                                                                                                                                                                                       full of river water...

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CRIME FICTION                                                                                                                                                                                                                    CRIME FICTION

                                             Krischan Koch                                                                                                                Krischan Koch
                                             Murderers                                                                                                                    Deep In
                                             Hate Herring                                                                                                                 Shallow Water
                                                                                                                                                                          (vol. I)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                © Gunter Glücklich
                                             (vol. VII)
                                                                                                                                                                          304 pages
                                                                                                                                                                          First published in 2009

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                KRISCHAN KOCH was born
                                                                                                                                  With a surprisingly simple ruse, art student Harry Oldenburg snatches an oil paint-           in 1953 in Hamburg, where
                                                                                                                                  ing and three watercolours by Emil Nolde from a local museum. High-tailing it to              he works as a film critic for
     272 pages                                                                                                                    the island of Amrum, his plan is to lie low until the commotion has died down.                the NDR and Die Zeit amongst
     February 2019                                                                                                                But it isn’t long before he finds himself being chased by a boorish ferryman, a love-         others. He and his wife lives
                                                                                                    PRESS ACCLAIMS:
                                                                                                                                  struck tourist and his prying landlady. Harry disposes of these inconvenient pursu-           in Hamburg and also on the
                                                                                                                                  ers, but getting rid of their dead bodies proves difficult. Eventually, he is forced to       North Sea island of Amrum,
     Fredenbüll goes Reeperbahn                                                                     “Krischan Koch’s crime
                                                                                                                                  leave the oil painting behind as he makes a dramatic escape across the Wadden Sea.            where he has the perfect view
                                                                                                    novels are the best fun you
                                                                                                                                  Eighteen years later, now a successful art dealer and thief, he returns to track down         on the North Sea mud-flats
     A fall storm washes a container ship full of electronics scrap up on Freden-                   could wish for. High enjoy-
                                                                                                                                  the missing picture...                                                                        and writes his successful
     büll’s coast. Between the snarled cables and discarded screens, a body appears!                ment, 100% guaranteed!”
                                                                                                    Susann Fleischer,                                                                                                           crime novels.
     Everything points toward murder - and to the likelihood that the crime hap-
     pened in Hamburg.                                                                              Literaturmarkt.info

     In his seventh case, village police officer Thies Detlefsen must travel to the me-             “With his dry,
                                                                                                    screamingly hilarious
                                                                                                                                                                          Krischan Koch
     tropolis on the Elbe River. And the entire staff of the snack stand “Hidde Kist”
     is coming along as well, of course. Fredenbüll goes Reeperbahn… if everything
     goes well, that is.
                                                                                                    dialogue, Koch bounces his
                                                                                                    quirky characters off each                                            See Venice and Steal
                                                                                                    other.”

     • Volume VII of the popular seaside crime series
                                                                                                    Lukas Jenkner, stuttgar-
                                                                                                    ter-zeitung Online
                                                                                                                                                                          (vol. II)
     • For readers of Anne George and fans of Agatha Raisin                                         “Suspenseful, funny, and
     • Total sales of Krischan Koch’s books with dtv: 400,000 copies                                brilliantly absurd.”
                                                                                                                                                                          288 pages
                                                                                                    Anja Goerz,
                                                                                                                                                                          First published in 2011
                                                                                                    Radio Bremen

     IN THE SAME SERIES:                                                                                                          Venice is in the throes of the biennale and awash with tourists. Harry Oldenburg
                                                                                                                                  throws himself into the fray. He and his girlfriend Zoe are planning to relieve the
                                                                                                                                  Guggenheim Museum of two valuable exhibits. But in the sizzling summer heat, the
                                                                                                                                  well-hatched plan goes pear-shaped: Harry finds himself in the bed of seductive art-
                                                                                                                                  ist Franca and discovers a corpse in her studio. When Zoe joins her lover in Venice,
                                                                                                                                  she is not amused but is nevertheless willing to help him on his raids. Too bad she’s
                                                                                                                                  frequently feeling rather queasy of late...

                                                                                                                                  Always a stickler for detail Krischan Koch checked the possibilities of hiding a stolen
                                                                                                                                  painting at the Venice Guggenheim Museum – thanks to his wife’s assistance he is now
                                                                                                                                  certain that a Miró will not fit in the Ladies’ cubicles.
     Spiked Fruit Jelly         North Sea Shrimps         The Pickled Herring
     (vol. I)                   (vol. II)                 Squad (vol. III)
     272 pages                  272 pages                 288 pages                                                               • Neatly packaged murder mysteries, satires, art and travel guides
     Pub. Date: 2013            Pub. Date: 2014           Pub. Date: 2015

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I N T E R N AT I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       I N T E R N AT I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R

Frank Goldammer Detective Inspector Max Heller series                                                                                    Rita Falk                                                                                                 Eberhofer series
c. 340 pages / each title

                              The Air Raid Killer (vol. I)
                              Dresden, November 1944: the population is                                                                                                                                                                               Winter Potato
                              groaning under the strain and dire privations
                              of an increasingly menacing war. Detective in-
                              spector Max Heller is summoned to the scene                                 TE
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Dumplings (vol. I)
                              of a crime, where he is confronted with the                        COMPLLIESH
                                                                                                  ENG T                                                                                                                                               For disciplinary reasons, Franz Eberhofer is
                              savagely battered body of a woman. Very soon,                         TEX E                                                                                                                                             forced to leave his post with the Munich po-
                              the rumour mills start to grind: it’s the Fright                      AVAILABL                                                                                                                                          lice and is transferred to his home village of
                              Man, prowling the ruins at night.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       © Astrid Eckert
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Niederkaltenkirchen in Lower Bavaria. There,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      he is a pen-pusher with a cushy job – his
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      patrols invariably ending up in the pub for a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      beer with Wolfi or at the dinner table of his
                              A Thousand Devils (vol. II)                                                                                                                                                                                             stone-deaf grandmother. All very relaxing,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   RITA FALK was born in 1964
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      which is just as well considering the trouble
                              Dresden, 1947: The city lies within the Soviet        Total sales of Frank                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           in Bavaria and still lives there.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      he has with his weed-growing old hippie
                              occupation zone and is still a desert of rubble                                                            240 pages                                                                                                                                                                                                 She is the mother of three
                                                                                    Goldammer’s books with                                                                                                                                            of a father, who drives him round the bend
                              and ruins. Inspector Max Heller is summoned                                                                First published in 2010                                                                                                                                                                                   grown children and is married
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      with his perpetual playing of Beatles records.
                              to the scene of a crime in Dresden Neustadt by        dtv: Over 100,000 copies                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       to a policeman.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      However, when a real case finally does land
                              the newly-instigated People’s Police. The victim
                                                                                                                                                                                                   ENGLPISLH                                          on his desk, it is truly bizarre – members of
                              seems to be a Red Army soldier. But before he                                                                                                                         SAM TEION
                                                                                                                                                                                                     NSILLAABLE
                                                                                                                                                                                                 TRAAV                                                the Neuhofer family are being killed in the
                              gets a chance to begin his investigations he dis-     Rights sold:                                                                                                      A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      most peculiar ways. The investigations into
                              covers that the Russian military has removed
                              the corpse from the scene...                          English language, Arab                                                                                                                                            these gruesome murders lead Franz Eber-                                                     Total sales: Over
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      hofer all the way to Majorca....
                                                                                    language, Greece,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             5.5 million copies
                                                                                    The Netherlands
                              The Forgotten (vol. III)                                                                                   THE EBERHOFER SERIES COVERS NINE VOLUMES:

                              Dresden 1948: a hot summer, three years after
                              the end of the war. The great currency reform
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Rights sold:

                                                                                                                           21373

                                                                                                                                                                            21425

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 21498

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 21561
                              throws occupied and divided post-war Ger-

                                                                                                                       DampfnudelBlues

                                                                                                                                                                       Schweinskopf al dente

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            GriessnockerlAffäre

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             SauerkrautKoma
                              many into a crisis. In the midst of the arduous                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Estonia, France, Hungary,
                                                                                                                                          dampfnudel-                                          schweinskopf                                       griessnockerl                               sauerkraut-
                              reconstruction work, Detective Inspector              US Editions:                                            blues                                                  al dente                                              affare                                            koma                                   Latvia, Turkey
                              Max Heller finds himself entangled in a case                                                                      Ein Provinzkrimi                                    Ein Provinzkrimi                                     Ein Provinzkrimi                                  Ein Provinzkrimi

                              involving a fourteen-year-old boy, whose cause
                              of death is anything but clear. While investi-                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Film rights of the
                              gating this case, Heller runs up against a wall
                              of silence.
                                                                                                                       _                  _                            _                       _                            _                     _                                                                            _
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  whole series sold!

                              Red Raven (vol. IV)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Rita Falk
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Kaiserschmarrndrama
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Der neunte Fall für den Eberhofer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  French Edition:

                                                                                                                                                                                                Leberkäs-                                                                                       kaiser-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Ein Provinzkrimi

                              In late summer 1951, Detective inspector                                                                                                                                                                            weisswurst-                                     schmarrn-
                                                                                                                                              zwetschgen-
                                                                                                                                                datschi-                                              junkie                                       connection                                     drama
                              Heller and his family are returning to Dresden                                                                  komplott                                                   Ein Provinzkrimi
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ein Provinzkrimi                                  Ein Provinzkrimi

                              from their state-authorized vacation on the                                                                       Ein Provinzkrimi

                              Baltic Sea. His wife Karin will be leaving again
                              immediately, having unexpectedly received
                                                                                                                                                                   _                                                    _                         _                                           _
                              permission to visit their son Erwin in West
                              Germany. Heller is worried, but his new case
                              isn’t leaving him any time to brood. Two men,
                              Jehovah’s Witnesses, being held under suspi-
                              cion of espionage die in their prison cells.

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                                                                                                                                               Hanni Münzer
                                                                                                                                               As Long As There Are
                                                                                                                                               Butterflies

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       © Fotostudio Dörr
                                                                                                                                          ENGLPISLH
                                                                                                                                           SAM TEION                                               HANNI MÜNZER is one of
                                                                                                                                            NSILLAABLE
                                                                                                                                        TRAAV                                                      Germany’s most successful au-
                                                                                                                                             A

                                                                                                        384 pages                                                                                  thors. Her Fisher of Souls series
                                                                                                        July 2017                                                                                  and the Honigtot saga have
                                                                                                                                                                                                   reached millions of readers, in
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Germany and internationally.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Hanni Münzer has lived in
                                                                                                        The world is full of wonders - you just have to see them                                   Seattle, Stuttgart and Rome,
                                                                                                                                                                                                   and has now settled in Upper
                                                                                                        Penelope is a happily-married primary school teacher – until tragedy rips her              Bavaria with her husband.
                                                                                                        little family apart. She leaves her husband, breaks off all her friendships and
                                                                                                        almost entirely withdraws from the outside world.

                                                                                                        It is only years later that she very slowly begins to feel her way back to life, to
                                                                                                        believe that love and happiness are possible. By her side are her mother and her                 BEST G
                                                                                                        neighbor Trudi, a fascinating woman in her eighties, with a mysterious past.                    SEULTLHIN
                                                                                                                                                                                                                OR
                                                                                                        Young Jason, who moves into the attic flat above her also plays a unique role in                  A
                                                                                                        Penelope’s new life. They all help Penelope learn that the world is full of wonder
                                                                                                        for those with eyes to see it.

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                                                                                                        heart and soul.”
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                                                                                                        “A novel so full of love that it can heal your heart. A strong story with charming
                                                                                                        and likeable characters that you won’t want to say goodbye to.”
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         MARIE BRUNNTALER was

                                          Martina Bergmann                                                                                                                                         Marie Brunntaler                                      born in the southern Black
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Forest and grew up on a

                                          My Life with Martha                                                                                                                                      The Simple Life
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         farm. She graduated with a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         degree in biology, and during

                                                                                                                              © Sünderhuse Photografie
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         the 1973 oil crisis, she began
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         working to promote a new
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ecological mindset in the en-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ergy sector. She worked as a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         landscaping specialist. Today
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         she lives with her son near the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Swiss border. The Simple Life is
                                                                                              MARTINA BERGMANN was                                                                                                                                       her first novel.
                                                                                              born in 1979 in Ostwestfalen.
                                                                                              After graduating high school,                              250 pages
     224 pages
                                                                                              she fled to the big cities of                              May 2018
     February 2019
                                                                                              Munich, Hamburg and Berlin.
                                                                                              She studied Humanities and is
                                                                                                                                                         Two sisters are making a fresh start in the prime of their lives
     Life is Beautiful!                                                                       a bookseller by trade.

                                                                                                                                                         While still young sisters, Adele and Elisabeth have left home to explore the
     Martina Bergmann takes care of Martha, a woman in her mid-80s who has a                                                                             exciting new opportunities offered by the post-war economic miracle.
     particularly poetic outlook on life. Neither can say anymore how this came to
     be, but they are so happy sharing the same house that it hardly matters.                                                                            In midlife, however, they regret having cut themselves off from their roots. They
                                                                                                                                                         return to the southern Black Forest and decide to realize an old dream – their
     Pointedly and true to life Martina Bergmann portrays the experience of living                                                                       dream of a rose garden. Together they invest all that they have and tend a piece
     with Martha, someone who, despite her illness, remains full of humor and wit.                                                                       of wasteland in the hills, on the very spot where their brother Hans’ packaging
     Her story shows that caring for someone suffering from dementia does not have                                                                       company once stood.
     to be a burden and, in fact, can be inspiring and life affirming.
                                                                                                                                                         Adele and Elisabeth want to give this land back to nature and create the most
     And while this unconventional living arrangement strikes passersby as odd,                                                                          beautiful rose garden the Black Forest has ever seen. Against all odds and the
     Martina wouldn’t have it any other way.                                                                                                             voice of reason this is their chance to restore their family’s reputation and quite
                                                                                                                                                         simply to become sisters again after all those years apart.

     • For readers of Arno Geiger’s The Old King in His Exile and fans of the
       movie Iris                                                                                                                                        • A novel for nature lovers and keen gardeners
     • A poignant novel about living with someone suffering from de-
       mentia, someone who was a virtual stranger and now has become
       family…
                                                                                                                                                         PREVIEW: BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

                                                                                                                                                                            Wolf
                                                                                                                                                                            240 pages
                                                                                                                                                                            Pub. Date: September 2019

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PREVIEW AUTUMN 2019

                  ARTUR DZIUK

                                    Artur Dziuk
PRELIMINAR
   COVER
          Y                         The Ting
                                     What would happen if you let an app make all the
                                     decisions in your life?

                 PING                In Berlin, four young people start a new company and co-develop a
                                     new app, the so-called Ting which gathers body-related data, evaluates
                       ROMAN         it, and then uses this basis to provide behavioral and decision
                                     recommendations.
                                                       S. 4

         c. 320 pages
         To be published in          The concept of Ting proves convincing - the app is wildly successful.
         September 2019              However, in order to win more investors for the company, the
                                     four young start-up founders are soon forced to take part in a
                                     dangerous game. They sign a contract to follow all of Ting’s future
                                     recommendations, regardless of what happens.

                                     For fans of The Circle and Her

                SABINE FRIEDRICH    SABINE FRIEDRICH

                  EINIGE
                A5ER DOCH
                                    Sabine Friedrich
                                   DIE NACHT HAT
                                     12 STUNDEN

                                    The Red Orchestra
                     ROMAN               ROMAN

                                    The first novel to be written about the lives and deaths of the women
                                    in the Red Orchestra.

                                    Sabine Friedrich, author of the resistance novel Who We Are dedicates
                                    her work to the fates of those who resisted Hitler, with particular
                                    focus on the women. She deftly knits the lives and deaths of the Red
         c. 400 pages
                                    Orchestra’s women in a grander tapestry. The author tells a deeply
         To be published in
                                    touching and evocative story leading to violent deaths at the hand of
         September 2019
                                    the Nazi regime.

                                     Two more novels are in preparation, one on the “Kreisau
                                     Circle” involving Helmuth James von Moltke, and one on
                                     “Operation Valyrie” involving Claus von Stauffenberg.

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