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Hunkeler in the Wilderness
The long wait is over – Detective Hunkeler is back on the job. Albeit very reluctantly.
The tenth case in the best-selling Hunkeler series.
A peaceful sunny morning in Basel’s Kannenfeld Park. A sudden scream disturbs Peter Hunkeler’s first coffee of the day: someone has found a dead body behind the bushes.
He may be in retirement, but a policeman is always a policeman, at least for other people. So Hunkeler has to take a look. And he realizes he knows the dead man: a well-known journalist and art critic.
224 pages
2020
978-3-257-07097-2
»Once again, this is more than a crime novel; a dense proliferation of feelings, impressions, fragments, all of which are concealing something.«
»Schneider has created a melancholy, literary crime novel, and a portrait of Hunkeler’s psychology.«
»As always, Schneider’s language, with its clarity and sense of calm, is a joy.«
»Horror encroaches into an idyll. And this contrast«
»Hansjörg Schneider tells his stories with a melancholy serenity that cares nothing for the loud things of the world.«
»Hansjörg Schneider, at 82 years of age, is at the peak of his creative powers with this book.«
»It’s true that Hunkeler can be irascible at times. But as a reader, one can find peace with him, without ever encountering shallow or superficial prose.«