Open and free to all literature friends we discuss the novel 'Day without a Name' by Friedrich Ani. Books are available to buy from the library beforehand.
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 catches up with him.
Twenty years ago, he comforted the mother of a dead seventeen-year-old girl, for hours, through the night, without saying a word. And as he begins to enjoy retirement, he is contacted by Ludwig Winther, the father of the girl and husband of the woman that Franck devoted so much attention to back then. Twenty years have passed, and Winther still doesn’t believe that his daughter killed herself, despite an unambiguous report by the medical examiner. According to him, his daughter’s death can’t have been anything but murder.
Former police detective Jakob Franck begins to shed light upon the particulars of the young girl’s death.
This psychological crime novel won the
German Crime Fiction Prize in 2016 and is the start of a series revolving around the former Detective Chief Superintendent Jakob Franck.
Friedrich Ani was born in 1959. His first novel was published in 1996, and since then he has gone on to write crime novels, poetry and YA-fiction, as well as writing for TV, radio and theatre. His books have received many prominent awards, among them the Bavarian Cultural Ministry’s Advancement Award for Literature and the German Crime Fiction Prize.
Source: Suhrkamp Verlag
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