| ISBN |
9780857057662 (hardback) |
| 9780857057358 (paperback) |
| Name |
Bottini, Oliver author. |
| Uniform title |
Mord im zeichen des zen. English |
| Title |
Zen and the art of murder / Oliver Bottini ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch. |
| Published |
London : Maclehose Press, 2018. |
| ©2018 |
| Description |
296 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
First published in the German language as Mord im zeichen des zen by Scherz Verlag in 2004. |
| Summary |
Louise Boni, chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the shadows of the past. Dreading yet another a dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the strangest assignment of her career - to trail a Japanese monk wandering through the snowy wasteland to the east of Freiburg, dressed only in sandals and a cowl. She sets off reluctantly, and by the time she catches up with him, she discovers that he is injured, and fearfully fleeing some unknown evil. Her investigations uncover a hideous ring of child traffickers, and the repercussions of their crimes will change the course of her own life. |
| Language note |
Translated from the German. |
| Awards note |
Winner of the German Crime Fiction Award. |
| Subjects |
Women detectives -- Fiction |
| Child trafficking -- Fiction |
| Monks -- Fiction |
| Black Forest (Germany) -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction |
| Other Names |
Bulloch, Jamie translator. |
| Series |
Black Forest investigation 01. |
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