Dear Colleagues,

We are proud to announce that the crime novel "Tannöd" by Andrea Maria Schenkel has won the most prestigeous award for crime novels in Germany:

Deutscher Krimi Preis 2007, 1.Platz

The award is given by journalists specializing in crime novels from all important media in Germany (print, TV, radio, Internet-platforms) as well as bookshops specializing in crime novels.
Further information about the award: www.deutscher-krimipreis.de
Bochumer Krimi Archiv: 100740.3540@compuserve.com

Based on the unsolved real-life murder of a farm family in the 1920s, Schenkel’s fictional account takes place in the 1950s. She describes, in ghastly and suspenseful detail, how a small Bavarian village became the unlikely site of a horrific crime. Tannöd was ranked as the top German-language crime novel for three consecutive months 2006 by a panel of journalists (print, TV, radio) specialized on crime novels.

The audio book, released in August 2006, is read by German actress Monica Bleibtreu.
The audio book won the “Deutscher Hörspiel Preis 2007” and the "Corine" award.

Schenkel, whose work has been featured at the Frankfurt and Leipzig book fairs, is currently publishing her second novel, which focuses on a serial killer in 1930s Germany.

Schenkel, who was profiled in the Jan. 8 edition of Der Spiegel, lives with her family near Regensburg.

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Tannöd

By Andrea Maria Schenkel

128 pages, published by Edition Nautilus, Hamburg, 2006

3 months on the german list of international crime novels (KrimiWelt Bestenliste),
2 months number 1 of the list!

Truman Capote captivated readers with the murder of a Kansas family in the 1950s. Fifty years later, German author Andrea Maria Schenkel has done the same with her debut work, Tannöd (Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2006), which was ranked as the top crime novel (original German language as well as translated novels) for three consecutive months by a panel of German critics.

Based on the unsolved real-life murder of a farm family in the 1920s, Schenkel’s fictional account takes place in the 1950s. She describes, in ghastly and suspenseful detail, how a small Bavarian village became the unlikely site of a horrific crime. The whole place is still drenched with an atmosphere of fascism and postwar.