by Ingrid Noll · Editorial Presenca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722328760
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«Uma Paixão Obsessiva» is the suspense novel by Ingrid Noll, published by Editorial Presença in paperback (194 pages, in Portuguese).
Rosemarie Hirte, a 52-year-old civil servant with an orderly life, awakens to an overwhelming passion after hearing Professor Rainer Witold Engstern. To win him over, she enters an obsessive game of calls and surveillance that drags in those around her. Narrated in the first person, it combines psychological portraiture and a noir atmosphere.
First instalment of the Rosemarie Hirte series. Original title: «Der Hahn ist tot» (1991); this Portuguese edition is from 2002. Nominated for the Friedrich-Glauser Prize for crime fiction in 1992.
Readers of psychological suspense and crime fiction with a female protagonist and first-person narration.
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.
