Andreas Gruber

Vita	Andreas Gruber

(c) Michael Adam [ Website ]	Andreas Gruber, born 1968 in Vienna, has twice won the award Vincent Preis and three times the Deutsche Phantastik Preis (German Award for Fantasy)

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	*Deadline of Death* “If you find out within 48 hours why I have abducted this woman, she will remain alive. If not – she will die.” With this telephone call a sinister game starts. In each of the catacombs of the cathedrals of Munich, Cologne and Leipzig a female body is found. The killer starves his victims to death, he drowns them in ink, burns them to death or immures them in concrete while still alive. Sabine Nemez, a young criminal investigator, has a terrible suspicion: Could there be a connection between the killings and the gloomy children's book Struwwelpeter? But who is behind it all and what is his motive? Soon the killer’s track leads the investigators to Vienna. Here, he has once again started to play his perfidious game, this time with the psychotherapist Helen Berger. But this time, he has chosen the wrong victim. Helen manages to turn the table – and she is on the brink of unveiling Struwwelpeter’s identity. HC. Der Club Bertelsmann 2012 PB: Goldmann 2013 Sold to: France (Editions L'Archipel), Japan (Tokyo Sogensha) Movie & TV: Rights free (AVA international)

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	*Summer of Vengeance* In a lawyer’s office in Vienna: The young lawyer Evelyn Meyers has to deal with a number of strange claims for damages, which all have one thing in common: Men with a high social status have lost their lives in a more than peculiar way. Are these really accidents? Evelyn’s search for evidence leads her to the North Sea. In a special institution for psychiatric conditions in Leipzig: When Natascha is found dead in her room, everything seems to point to suicide. Commissioner Walter Pulaski, however, has his doubts: One sentence in the suicide note, which was discovered in Natascha’s knickers, seems mysterious: “There are always others that come to me by night.” Shortly afterwards, when Pulaski hears of similar deaths in other hospitals across the nation, he comes to the conclusion that this is the work of an intelligent killer, haunting teenagers with psychiatric conditions. On his search, Pulaski also finds himself in Bremerhaven … HC: Der Club Bertelsmann 2010 PB: Goldmann 2011 Movie & TV: Rights free (AVA international) Sold to: Brazil (Editora Europa Ltda), Japan (Tokyo Sogensha), Korea (Jaeum and Moeum)

	*The Mill of the Angels* The second case for private investigator Peter Hogart Abel Ostrovsky, a retired doctor specialising in treatment of the spinal cord, is brutally tortured and murdered in his villa at the outskirts of Vienna. Shortly before his death he managed to hide a videotape. In search of that video, the killer leaves a bloody trace all over the city. The insurance detective Peter Hogart finds the videotape before the killer gets hold of it and therefore becomes a target himself. On the tape, however, nothing can be seen but nine minutes of a black and white sequence: a woman in a wheelchair, going through a shabby room in a hospital… PB: Festa 2008

	*Black Lady* Peter Hogarts first case Peter Hogart, a private investigator, gets commissioned to go to Prague in search for a colleague, who while investigating a case of insurance fraud went missing without a trace. In the midst of a city reigned by dark myths, Hogart stumbles across a wasps’ nest: Within hours he has thugs, money collectors, as well as a lunatic killer and the whole of Prague CID at his throat. Only Ivona Markovic, a private detective, seems to be on Hogart’s side. She is currently investigating a number of bizarre cases of murder and mutilation, using the help of a dangerous boss of the underworld. When both only just manage to escape death they finally realise that there must be a connection between their cases. This is Gruber’s new psycho-thriller. A gloomy case of lunacy forces an entire city to play a perverse game. PB: Festa 2007 Sold to: Japan (Tokyo Sogensha)

	*The Shrine of Jude* In the remote mountain village of Grein, surrounded by hills and a river, the mutilated body of a young girl is found. Investigator Alexander Körner and his Team are sent to the place to solve the crime. The situation worsens when constant rain causes the river to burst its banks and to destroy the only bridge. Enclosed by flooding waters and cut off from the world a horrible truth is discovered and the killing continues ... HC: Festa 2005 PB: Festa 2008

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