Vanitas - Dark as the Earth

The Vanitas series, Volume 1

Deadly floral greetings: Vanitas – Dark as the Earth is the start of a new thriller series by SPIEGEL bestselling author Ursula Poznanski. A Viennese florist with a dark past investigates a ruthless crime syndicate.

At the main cemetery in Vienna, the florist Carolin is such a familiar sight that she is almost invisible. Just as the messages she exchanges with her clients are encoded in the language of flowers - because her greatest fear is to be found. Just a year prior Caroline's name was a different one; as a police informer she was on the trail of one of the most brutal organized crime gangs. Hardly anyone knows that she survived her last mission. But then she receives a flower greeting, which calls her to Munich for a new case - and which makes her fear that she could soon experience her own death a second time ...

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  • Publisher: Knaur HC
  • Release: 01.02.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-22686-5
  • 384 Pages
  • Series: Die Vanitas-Reihe
  • Author: Ursula Poznanski
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Ursula Poznanski Vanitas - Dark as the Earth
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Ursula Poznanski

Ursula Poznanski, author of the ultrapopular bestseller Erebos, delights her adult readers with a new bestseller about the language of flowers.
What the press is saying about VANITAS - Black as Earth:
“A crime novel that plays with the boundaries between life and death.” SZ.de
“Poznanski keeps her promises from the very first sentence. The suspense doesn’t stop until the last page.” Kronenzeitung
“When you read Ursula Poznanski’s new novel, you turn every corner. Because you have the feeling of being under constant observation and in danger of your life just like Poznanski’s heroine.” Freundin