Exceptional and Stirring – Here Comes the Best Crime Novel of the Season!
Just a few days after his release from a young offenders’ institution, Joran has already lost all hope for a fresh start. Needing money, he sneaks out at night to the petrol station he robbed seven years ago. The petrol station has long been abandoned, but instead of the loot he managed to hide in a sewer shaft, Joran finds a body: Aras, his friend and accomplice from back then. Is the third member of their group his killer? Horrified, Joran realises he is not alone on the dilapidated site. There is Edda, a little girl in pyjamas. And Charu, who wants to make a name for herself as a lost places photographer with her glitter cat. The dead man in the shaft becomes a fateful link for all three.
»A debut that took my breath away.« Tobias Gohlis, Deutschlandfunk on Das Haus, in dem Gudelia stirbt (The House Where Gudelia Dies)
»Why read it now: With his debut Das Haus, in dem Gudelia stirbt (The House Where Gudelia Dies), Thomas Knüwer won both the German Crime Fiction Award and the Stuttgart Crime Prize in 2024. His stripped-back writing style induces goosebumps and is certainly not for the faint-hearted. This psychologically complex novel could well be one of the best crime thrillers of the year.« Frankfurter Rundschau
