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Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain
Kalmann is in hot water. More specifically, he’s at the FBI Headquarters in Washington. All he wanted was to visit his American father – but his dad leaves him high and dry, and before Kalmann knows it, he’s on a plane back to Iceland. Yet there’s no rest to be found in the far north either. There’s been a murder, and the clues lead back to America and the Cold War. Who is going to solve this explosive case? Correctamundo: Kalmann, the famed sheriff of Raufarhöfn.
304 pages
2023
978-3-257-07266-2
»A modern Charlie Chaplin. Kalmann’s naive view on the world makes readers marvel, too.«
»Once more an extremely entertaining and kind book.«
»[…] Kalmann finds himself dragged into the aftermath of a Cold War mystery that once involved his grandfather, the Americans, and Russian spies – and what began as a gentle and amusing story finally changes pace and sails off to an explosive climax.«
»This book throws us right into the conflicts of the big wide world. Kalmann, the ›Sheriff of Raufarhöfn‹, involuntarily finds himself in the middle of the Capitol riots and in the FBI’s hands. Joachim B. Schmidt draws the funniest and most remarkable connections in Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain, with originality, with wit and eloquence. Kalmann never judges, he views things as they are. For this reason, he is in many ways wiser than we are. An absorbing, brilliant crime novel. Humorous. Never preachy.«