Head Count - Ingrid Noll

“German thrillers stink.” This from an editor of a German publishing house. Indeed, the thriller/mystery genre is an Anglo thing, it was born in England and is still dominated by British and American authors, in fact so much so that if you enter a bookshop in Germany, you don’t know where you are, the heaps of bestsellers near the entrance are invariably thrillers by British or American authors, often the titles aren’t even translated. This doesn’t mean that there are no German thrillers at all, but they rarely acquire national and hardly ever international fame. To have one’s German thrillers translated into English is thus like being knighted, Ingrid Noll ...