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All the Empty Rooms
Year of Publication: 2019
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2019
Novel

In Friedrich Ani’s new novel, »the four« must spring into action: Polonius Fischer (the former monk), Tabor Süden (the returned missing person’s investigator), Jakob Franck (the former inspector, now retired, but still the deliverer of the worst news) and Fariza Nasri (the detective with Syrian roots, saved from her banishment to the provinces). All of them must...


The Fool and His Machine
Year of Publication: 2018
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2018
A Case for Tabor Süden

Tabor Süden started out as a policeman before moving into private detective work, becoming an experienced specialist in missing persons cases. What he really wanted was to walk away forever from investigative work after the last case in which one of his colleagues lost his life.


Süden plans to leave Munich with no goodbyes. However, when his boss catches him at the railway station,...


The Queen’s Secret
Year of Publication: 2002
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2002
A Case for Tabor Süden
When investigation the death of a man who starved to death in a seemingly deserted house, the CID comes across the name of a woman: Soraya Roos. This brings Inspector Tabor Süden to the scene, the expert for missing persons, because ten years ago Soraya left her family from one day to the next and has been considered missing ever since. Süden starts searching for her once more and...

The Woman with the Austere Dress
Year of Publication: 2002
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2002
A Case for Tabor Süden
Johann Farak, 41, son of an Egyptian, has disappeared. But apart from his sister, no one seems to miss him. He was a drunkard, they say, he painted pictures on wooden boards that were no good. Then a mysterious young woman turns up – and Inspector Tabor Süden suddenly realises what a sad life Johann Farak has led so far and that perhaps he had no choice but to leave this life behind ...

The Nameless Day
Year of Publication: 2015
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2015
A Case for Jakob Franck

Detective Chief Superintendent Jakob Franck has been retired for two months and feels that he can now start to lead a life in which he leaves behind the dead - until a case from his past...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Emons), Greece (Gutenberg)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German Entire Radio Readings (HR and BR)


Bull’s Eye
Year of Publication: 2022
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2022
Novel

Police officer Kay Oleander was hit in the face with a beer bottle during a demonstration and lost his left eye as a result. Released from active duty, he struggles to get through the day – until fate leads him to Silvia Glaser. She, too, has been disabled ever since a bicycle accident. Unexpectedly, the two find support in each other – despite the fact that she is suspected of...


The Streetcar Drinker
Year of Publication: 2002
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2002
A Case for Tabor Süden
Tabor Süden is on leave, reducing accrued overtime and doing little else but letting himself drift along the streets of Munich. But then he is unexpectedly called to Department 11: A man is...
Rights sold to:

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Plataforma)


The Air Guitarist
Year of Publication: 2003
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2003
A Case for Tabor Süden
At the city’s vey first Air Guitar Championships, Süden’s colleague Martin Heuer comes second in the preliminary round – when suddenly his toughest competitor disappears without a trace. Together with Süden and the team from Department 11, Heuer sets out on a search: they find a suicide note and a woman who is deaf and understands everything, but doesn’t want to...

The Promise of the Fallen Angel
Year of Publication: 2001
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2001
A Case for Tabor Süden
Maximilian Grauke has left his wife without explanation. A shoemaker who wants to leave his monotonous life behind – or so it seems. But this is not the first time Grauke has disappeared. And...
Rights sold to:

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Plataforma)


Light Years in the Dark
Year of Publication: 2024
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2024
Novel
A shopkeeper who had big plans for the future has disappeared. His wife thinks her dreams are over. Then there’s the former owner of a removals business with a guilt complex, and a mysterious visitor from the Berlin demimonde. The fates of all these characters intersect in Munich, in a turn of events that causes all their lives to go off the rails.

Leo Ahorn has disappeared. And yet,...

Year of Publication: 2016
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2016
Novel

At the age of fourteen, a boy flees from the southern German village of Heiligsheim. Forty years later, he returns under the name of Ludwig »Luggi« Dragomir. The tough times he has had to...

Rights sold to:

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg)


Year of Publication: 2017
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2017
A Case for Jakob Franck

Happiness is extinguished completely when 11-year-old Lennard Grabbe doesn’t come home one night during the cold November days in Munich. 34 days later, he is found the victim of a murderer....

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Emons)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German Radio Drama (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)


Year of Publication: 2021
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2021
Novel

Seventeen-year-old Finja Madsen fails to come home after a party one night. There are no witnesses, no clues as to what happened to her. The investigation is at a dead end. Inspector Fariza Nasri interviews family and friends of the missing girl, including her mother’s boyfriend Stephan Barig. The party was at his house while he spent the weekend in the countryside with two friends. Barig...


Year of Publication: 2025
Max AnnasYear of Publication: 2025
Thriller
Rock 'n' roll and revenge in postwar Cologne

Like a lot of people in Cologne in 1959, Adi, Hagen and Gisela listen to rock ‘n’ roll. But they also spend plenty of time on the trail of Salz, the owner of the BMW that ran over their friend Karl. They are none too pleased that Salz’s son gets about painting swastikas all over the city, but what gets at the even more is...

Year of Publication: 2023
Zoë BeckYear of Publication: 2023
Thriller
A summer in the near future. Harriet is haunted by memories that seem entirely foreign to her. Gradually, more and more fragments appear, and Harriet has to admit to herself that what she had...
Rights sold to:

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Argon)

 


Year of Publication: 2015
Zoë BeckYear of Publication: 2015
Thriller

In the heart of London, documentary filmmaker Niall witnesses a bestial attack on a young man, committed by jihadists. As he investigates the background of this act for a reportage, he gets caught up in a maelstrom of fear and violence, fuelled by political machinations and the media. He has no idea how much his life is interwoven with the terrorist act until it unravels...


Year of Publication: 2024
Zoë BeckYear of Publication: 2024
Thriller
Emma Vine has achieved everything there is to achieve as an event manager in London: she organises the most glamorous parties, represents the biggest stars, and has the most important clients on her books. But when her company in Canary Wharf falls prey to a cyberattack, Emma realises that someone is after her – both on the net and in the real world…

When the air...

Year of Publication: 2020
Zoë BeckYear of Publication: 2020
Thriller

Germany in the near future. The coasts are flooded, large parts of the country are depopulated and nature is reclaiming deserted communities. Berlin is nothing but a backdrop for tourists....

Rights sold to:

Russia (Gorodets), Norway (Olivia Forlag), Finland (Huippu), Latvia (SIA Pētergailis)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Argon)


Year of Publication: 2017
Zoë BeckYear of Publication: 2017
Thriller

London, in the not too distant future: A drug dealer is floating down the Thames – dead. A protection racketeer disappears without a trace. And Ellie Johnson is certain that she is...

Rights sold to:

Arabic World rights (Tanmia)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audible)


Year of Publication: 2010
Simone BuchholzYear of Publication: 2010
Crime Novel

Summer in Hamburg, it’s far too hot, but Sankt Pauli is glowing – when suddenly, a few extra feet are found floating in the Elbe. Men’s feet, to be precise, and there’s not...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Orenda)

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