Die Verdächtige

JUDITH KUCKART
DIE VERDÄCHTIGE – THE SUSPECT

Novel, about 240 pages
Autumn 2008

“A master in the dissection of disturbing emotions.”
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

Can a police investigator fall in love with the suspect?

Robert is 39 years old, looks like George Clooney and works for the homicide squad. He met his wife during a traffic check, but she has just left him. And then a woman comes to him at the police station about whom everything was strange, and not only the rhubarb collar of her coat.

Marga Burg wants to report a missing person. She was at the funfair with her boyfriend Mathias; he boarded the ghost train along and never came out again: “He was simply gone, like a fist disappears when you open your hand.”

Robert sets off in search of him. Along with his perky female colleague Nico he encounters the secret rules of the funfair people, a childish blubberbutt as well as a man whose job is discovering unconventional places. Und wherever he goes he meets Marga, who becomes even more enigmatic that closer he gets to her.

Judith Kuckart has written a grandiose novel: subtly and with a light hand she has shaped a mystery novel that that holds the reader in its spell. And “Die Verdächtige” is also such great literature that every single sentence is pleasurable.

Rights sold to: Peoples Literature Publishing House (Mainland China)