Red-white-dead: crime novels from Thomas Stipsits to Thomas Raab

by time news October 29, 2024

October 29, 2024

The Austrian crime thriller is becoming more and more of a brand, with everything from regional murder thrillers to international thrillers.

The economy may be faltering, but the “Murder Made in Austria” is booming. The appetite of murder-loving readers is whetted by the amazing variety, from regional crime novels with a high sensitivity element to international five-star thrillers, from quality historical fare to psychological suspense with bite. Tasting menu with new releases.

Stinatz’s crime novels with cabaret artist Thomas Stipsits are selling like hotcakes. With his latest novel, “All Saints Fiasco,” Stipsits is taking a narrow approach, and not just because the crime novel is only 176 pages, including the recipe and questions for the author. As always, inspired by his grandmother Anna, Stipsits his clumsy, poplar tea-drinking Inspector Sifkovits investigates a suspicious suicide on All Saints’ Day, basically “the Stinatz Opera Ball”. A little consolation for fans: On October 28, ORF will show the film adaptation of Stipsits crime debut “Headscarf Mafia”.

Thomas Raab He returns after a long break with one of the most famous Austrian crime characters: the Restorer Metzger and his determined wife Danjela now live in an allotment, of course the idyll between thuja hedges and garden gnomes is only imaginary: no long as a neighbor swims dead into the inflatable whirlpool and the butcher digs up a secret or two of the allotted gardeners. The tenth case of a butcher, “The Butcher Digs Around,” is a crime thriller from Raab in the best sense of the word: strange but really strange characters, a wonderfully strange story in which, along with many insults, there is. reflective moments too.

Dark things from Styria free,

Things are darker in Graz. The film “Trost und Rath” was recently shown on TV, the script of which was based on the crime thriller “Death Dances in Graz” by Robert Price established. In the ninth volume, “The Harsh Nights of Graz,” special investigator Armin Trost tracks down a serial killer who brutally kills women. The text is dense, not every detail is mentioned, much is revealed from the subtext.

Shortly after the release of his eighth thriller about the investigative duo Maarten SS Sneijder and Sabine Nemez, one thing is certain: Andreas Gruber will not leave the path of international success with “Todesspur”. Gruber may not be as popular as Bernhard Aichner, who was recently engaged to “Yoko”, or Marc Elsberg (“Blackout”), but his fans are large and loyal. This time it is important to prevent a series of attacks from the next generation of the RAF terrorist group.

Austrian crime writers show that women are exposed to more water than just eau de victim. Theresa Prammer In “False Masks”, her unlikely duo, ex-police officer Edgar Brehm and student activist Toni Lorenz, investigate the case of actress Julia Didier, who confessed to murdering her husband on television. Brehm and Lorenz go deep into the world of theatre, where drama is not limited to the stage. Prammer’s action levels increase in complexity with ease, and her main characters quickly grow on readers’ hearts. Very exciting, well written.

In Austria, people tend to prefer looking back rather than forward, which probably explains the high density and quality of historical crime novels. In “The White Hour” the author Alex Beer shows Vienna in April 1923: a city between an unresolved past and an urgent modernity, economic misery and political tension. At the center of the whole story is Detective Inspector August Emmerich from the Department of Life and Health, who is under pressure to solve a brutal series of murders of women. Alex Beer offers fine crime fare based on a tried-and-true recipe packed with historical facts.

Thomas Stipsits: “All Saints Fiasco”, Carl Ueberreuter-Verlag, 176 pages, 18.50 euros