by Ingrid Noll · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257225754
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«Der Hahn ist tot» is Ingrid Noll's psychological suspense novel, published by Diogenes Verlag in paperback (265 pages, in German).
Rosemarie Hirte, a fifty-two-year-old insurance employee who feels life has passed her by, falls in love with the man of her dreams and decides to remove any obstacle, even if she has to literally step over corpses. With irony and black humour, the novel explores obsession and desperation in an apparently tranquil society.
First instalment of the series featuring Rosemarie Hirte. The work was nominated for the Friedrich-Glauser Prize in the crime novel category in 1992.
Readers of crime fiction and suspense with black humour, and those who enjoy contemporary German literature.
Ingrid Noll is a German thriller writer. She has written several novels, including Head Count, Hell Hath No Fury and The Pharmacist, as well as one television drama, Bommels Billigflüge. Several of her novels have been subsequently adapted as films, including Die Apothekerin, which was released in the United States as The Pharmacist and was nominated for the German Film Award in Gold for outstanding feature film. She published her first novel, which became a great success, at the age of 55. Today she is one of the most popular German female authors.
