Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Winner of the German Crime Fiction Award
Louise Boni drinks too much. The maverick inspector in Germany's Black Forest police squad is haunted by the mistakes she's made and the people she's lost. While she's dreading the approach of another lonely winter weekend, a call from her supervisor draws her into the most bizarre case of her career. A badly beaten Japanese monk is roaming the snowy Freiburg region with little more than sandals and a begging bowl, and the frightened holy man appears to be fleeing an unseen danger. Now Boni must battle both skeptical police authorities and her personal demons as her investigation reveals a hidden crime ring as well as a spiritual opportunity to transform her life. The first book in the Black Forest Investigation series, Zen and the Art of Murder is "a surprising and genuinely shocking case." -- The Sunday Times (U.K.)
Synopsis
"A surprising and genuinely shocking case." -- Sunday Times. From a masterful new voice in crime fiction comes this tale of a maverick inspector in Germany's Black Forest police squad. Louise Boni receives the strangest assignment of her career when she's ordered to trail a Japanese monk who's roaming the snowy Freiburg region -- only to discover that the injured holy man is fleeing an insidious evil that will transform the course of her own life. Winner of the German Crime Fiction Award.