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 Head Count - Ingrid Noll
 Head Count - Ingrid Noll ... father seemed to love her but he disappeared. Maya's life is embattled until she meets Cora. The two form a friendship founded on a conviction that they are somehow separate from society and do not have to abide by its rules.Newest Review: ... he really left her to suffer from her mother’s and her brother Carlo’s cruelty. The ‘Infanta’ soon turns into an ‘Elephanta’ ... more ... and the bullying at home continues at school.
The only bright spot is Cora, a new classmate, the two girls become friends at once and go through thick and thin and also murders. The first victim is Carlo, Maya kills him with a gas pistol when he tries to rape Cora; no case is opened, though, because it’s seen as self-defence.
Before her final exam at school May becomes pregnant and marries Jonathan, a student, who’s as potent as a lover as he’s boring as a husband. So she takes her son and moves in with Cora, who’s ...more |
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Head Count - Ingrid Noll: Murderous Maidens (1195 words)
by - written on 05/08/07 (Very useful, 205 readings)
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“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 ... Read the complete review
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