by Paulus Hochgatterer · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783423253109
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«Die Süße des Lebens» is the crime novel by Paulus Hochgatterer, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback and in German.
In a small town, at Christmas, the murder of an old man breaks the calm. His seventeen-year-old granddaughter Katerina finds him and falls silent; the psychiatrist Raffael Horn ends up involved in the investigation. Inspector Kovacs observes the neighbours while the portrait of the village reveals secrets and domestic violence.
First instalment of the «Kovacs & Horn» series; large-print edition (Großdruck) of 476 pages, published in 2010.
For readers of psychological thrillers with a wintry atmosphere and characters shaped by life in a small community.
Paulus Hochgatterer is an Austrian writer and psychiatrist. He is the author of several novels and story collections. One of his novels called Die Süsse des Lebens won the EU Prize for Literature. It was translated into English as The Sweetness of Life by Jamie Bulloch.
