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Ole Hansen

Pseudonym of Herbert W. Rhein

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Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries with seventy-five million books in print worldwide.

His books have earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many have been developed into Netflix Original Drama series, including his adaptations of The Stranger, The Innocent, Gone for Good and The Woods. His most recent adaptation for Netflix, Stay Close, premiered on December 31, 2021 and stars Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, and Richard Armitage.

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Walter Moers

Walter Moers was born in 1957 and is a writer, cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He has refused to be photographed ever since his comic strips The Little Asshole and Adolf were published, the latter leading him to be declared persona non grata by the political right in Germany. Walter Moers lives in Hamburg.

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Martin Walker

Martin Walker is the U.S. bureau chief for The Guardian (London), a regular commentator for CNN, and a columnist for newspapers in the United States, Europe, and Moscow. A published novelist and poet, he lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, the novelist Julia Watson, and their two daughters.

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Wolf Haas

Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.

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Yrsa Sigurdardottir

AKA: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998.
Her début crime-novel "Last Rituals" published in the US in 2007, and the UK in January 2008 was translated into English by Bernard Scudder, and is book 1 of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir graduated from high-school in 1983, finished a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Iceland in 1988 and M.Sc in the same field from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997.

Yrsa now works as a civil engineer for the company Fjarhitun, as well as being a writer.

In 2000 the Icelandic department of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) awarded Yrsa for her book Við

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Volker Klüpfel

Volker Klüpfel (* 1971 in Kempten (Allgäu)) ist ein deutscher Krimiautor.

Volker Klüpfel wuchs in Altusried im Allgäu auf. Er studierte Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte, Kommunikationswissenschaft und Journalistik. Nach dem Studium arbeitete er als Journalist bei einer amerikanischen Zeitung und beim Bayerischen Rundfunk, bevor er ein Zeitungsvolontariat begann. Klüpfel war bis August 2008 Kulturredakteur der Memminger Zeitung, im September 2008 wechselte er zur überregionalen Kulturredaktion der Augsburger Allgemeinen und wohnt seitdem in Augsburg. Seit 2012 ist er hauptberuflich Autor.

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Ewald Arenz

Der Autor Ewald Arenz kam 1965 in Nürnberg zur Welt und studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur und Geschichte. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre ist er als Autor tätig und hat neben einigen Glossen und Kindergeschichten auch Theaterstücke und historische Kriminalromane.
Er ist mittlerweile einer der produktivsten und erfolgreichsten Schriftsteller Süddeutschlands, dessen Gesamtauflage weit über 120.000 verkaufte Bücher zählt.

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Pierre Martin

Pierre Martin is the pseudonym of a German writer.

Pierre Martin published under this name until mid-2019 six crime novels. They play in France and Italy and were all published by the publisher Droemer Knaur. The two main characters are Commissioner Isabelle Bonnet and her assistant Apollinaire.

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Andreas Gruber

Andreas Gruber, geboren 1968 in Wien, studierte an der dortigen Wirtschaftsuniversität und lebt als freier Schriftsteller mit seiner Frau in Grillenberg, Niederösterreich. Er hat bereits mehrere erfolgreiche und preisgekrönte Erzählungen und Romane verfasst. Die aktuelle Reihe um den knallharten, aber brillanten Ermittler Maarten S. Sneijder schockiert und fasziniert seine Fans gleichermaßen. Nach Todesfrist und Todesurteil erschien am 15. August 2016 Todesmärchen , der dritte Band der Reihe. Neben der „Todes-Reihe“ um Maarten S. Sneijder erscheint im Goldmann Verlag unter anderem auch die „Rache-Reihe“ um den asthmakranken Leipziger Ermittler Walter Pulaski.

„Schriftstellerei bedeutet für mich, dass ich interessante Figuren erfinden darf, o

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Viveca Sten

Viveca Sten made her author debut with crime novel Still Waters. It soon became a huge hit with both critics and readers and today the author has sold almost 3 million copies of her books worldwide.

In May 2014, her seventh novel, The Price of Power, was published in Sweden. It was hugely successful and Viveca cemented her place as one of the country’s most popular authors. Her Sandhamn Murder Series continues to top the best seller charts, not to mention the whopping success of the TV mini-series that is based on Viveca’s novels. An estimated 30 million people around the globe have been watching the adventures of Nora and Thomas unfold on the TV screen.

Today, Viveca lives in Stockholm with her husband and three children. During the summer m

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Nele Neuhaus

... geboren in Münster / Westfalen und aufgewachsen in Paderborn, lebt seit ihrer Kindheit im Taunus und schreibt bereits ebenso lange. Sie arbeitete in einer Werbeagentur, studierte einige Semester Jura, Geschichte und Germanistik, bis sie nach ihrer Heirat ihren Mann im familieneigenen Betrieb unterstützte.

Ihre im Vordertaunus angesiedelte Krimiserie mit den Ermittlern Oliver von Bodenstein und Pia Kirchhoff, die Nele Neuhaus zunächst im Selbstverlag veröffentlichte bevor der Berliner Ullstein-Verlag sie 2008 entdeckte und unter Vertrag nahm, machte sie zu einer der meistgelesenen Krimiautorinnen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ihre Taunuskrimis erreichten bisher eine Gesamtauflage von einer Million, die Rechte wurden in 20 Länder verkauft, un

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Eva Almstädt

Eva Almstädt is a German author of crime and mystery novels, best known for the Pia Korittki series.

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Rita Falk

Rita Falk hat sich mit ihrer Provinzkrimiserie um den Dorfpolizisten Franz Eberhofer (Winterkartoffelknödel, Dampfnudelblues und Schweinskopf al dente) in die Herzen ihrer Leser geschrieben. Von sich selber sagt die Autorin, dass sie die schönste Zeit ihres Lebens in Oberbayern verbracht hat. Dort hat sie ihre Kindheit verbracht, wuchs bei der Oma auf. Dem ihr so vertrauten Landstrich ist Rita Falk auch als Erwachsene treu geblieben. Sie lebt heute in München. Rita Falk ist mit einem Polizisten verheiratet und hat drei erwachsene Kinder.

Die Kindheitserfahrungen sind der Schatz, aus dem Rita Falk als Schriftstellerin schöpft. In ihrem Franz-Eberhofer-Krimi bildet ein bayerisches Dorf den Mittelpunkt des Geschehens. Keine Frage, dass es Rita

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Jean-Luc Bannalec

pen name of Jörg Bong

The author divides his time between Germany and coastal Brittany, France. Death in Brittany, the first case for Commissaire Dupin, was published in German in March 2012 and sold 600,000 copies, spending many months on the bestseller list. It has been sold into 14 countries.

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Benjamin Myers

Benjamin Myers was born in Durham, UK, in 1976.

He is an award-winning author and journalist whose recent novel Cuddy (2023) won the Goldsmiths Prize.

His first short story collection, Male Tears, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

His novel The Offing was published by Bloomsbury in 2019 and is a best-seller in Germany. It was serialised by Radio 4's Book At Bedtime and Radio 2 Book club choice. It is being developed for stage and has been optioned for film.

The non-fiction book Under The Rock, was shortlisted for The Portico Prize For Literature in 2020.

Recipient of the Roger Deakin Award and first published by Bluemoose Books, Myers' novel The Gallows Pole was published to acclaim in 2017 and was winner of the Walter Scott Prize 2018 - the

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Anette Hinrichs

Anette Hinrichs is a German author of crime novels.

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