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What would happen if you let an app make all the ROMAN © Gunter Glücklich © Gunter decisions in your life? 464 pages dtv’s new imprint bold addresses generation Y readers with young, In , four young people start a new company and September 2019 co-develop a new app, the so-called Ting which gathers edgy fiction titles. Life in times of social media and globalization, body-related data, evaluates it, and then uses this basis to gender debates, experiences of diversity and inclusion, and the provide behavioral and decision recommendations. overcoming of stereotypes are topics that takes on bold The concept of Ting proves convincing – the app makes a ARTUR HENRYK DZIUK was born in 1983 in − across communities and age groups, and beyond expectations. great impact. However, in order to win more investors for the Poland, and as a child, he moved with his parents company, the four start-up founders are soon forced to take to Berlin. He was the publisher of Bella triste, a part in a dangerous game. They sign a contract to follow all of magazine for contemporary literature. He was Ting’s future recommendations, regardless of what happens, also an artistic director for Prosanova, a festival for with fatal consequences. contemporary literature, and is currently employed by the Fraunhofer Society for Information and Communication Technology. bold is the publishing answer to everyday life of generation Y • An exhilarating novel set in the Berlin start-up − a new imprint, a bold experiment. scene Having started in 2018 with huge success, the imprint explicitely • For fans of The Circle and Her attracts new target groups.

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SABINE FRIEDRICH EINIGE R.R. Sul R.R. SUL is a pseudonym. The ABER DOCH Sabine Friedrich author would like to remain The Inheritance anonymous. ROMAN But Some Did

Bogenberger © Heike ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION »Ich war immer allein. Mit meiner Mutter. AVAILABLE SABINE FRIEDRICH, born in Meine Mutter war immer allein. Mit mir. Meine Mutter lebte für mich und zerstörte ihr Leben. Nicht aber meines. Das versuchte ein anderer.« _ _ 1958 in Coburg, studied German and English in 224 pages 448 pages and gained her PhD in 1989. September 2019 September 2019 Returning to her native Coburg in 1996, she has been living there ever since with her family. »I was always alone. With my mother. My mother was always alone. With »My greatest hope is that you are happy when you think of me.« In 2012, Sabine Friedrich me. My mother lived for me and destroyed her life. But not mine. Someone published her comprehensive else did that.« This is the first novel ever published about the lives and deaths of the women and men novel Wer wir sind about the involved with the so-called Red Orchestra. They all met the same violent fate, but German resistance, along with a their paths to that point were quite varied despite the similarity of their deaths. Sabine work report about the Friedrich’s narrative is not about heroes from some distant time, but about the decisive development of this novel. As a child, Wolf slept during the day and was awake at night. He was only allowed to and searching, desperate and confident, outraged and loving individuals who found leave their apartment if he put on a motorcycle helmet, because his mother claimed themselves compelled to respond and react to the circumstances that surrounded them. that he suffered from moonshine disease. When a doctor discovered her lie, she killed Just like everyone else. Most Germans acquiesced to what was happening around them, herself. Now, as an adult, Wolf lives in seclusion in his apartment, the walls of which are never even once trying to intervene. But some did. covered with puzzles. One day, a man appears, claiming to be his brother. Freddy has an enigmatic impact on Wolf, a man with no moral compass, and the two men grow closer. • The first novel ever published about the lives and deaths of the women Once again, Wolf finds himself in a dangerous struggle for the truth of his own life. and men involved with the Red Orchestra. • Two more novels are in preparation, one on the “Kreisau Circle” involving Helmuth James von Moltke, and one on “Operation Valkyrie” involving • Raw, murky and turbulent Claus von Stauffenberg. • An unsettling game of power and manipulation

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Who We Are 2.032 pages Pub. Date: 2012 w 236 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 7 [email protected] www.dtv.de [email protected] www.dtv.de CRIME FICTION CRIME FICTION Frank Goldammer Detective Inspector Max Heller-Series c. 340 pages / each title Frank Goldammer The Air Raid Killer (vol. I) , November 1944: the population is June '53 groaning under the strain and dire privations BEST of an increasingly menacing war. Detective SELLER VOL. I + II: inspector Max Heller is summoned to the COMPLETE scene of a crime, where he is confronted with ENGLISH the savagely battered body of a woman. Very TEXT soon, the rumour mills start to grind: it’s the AVAILABLE Oellermann © Jens Fright Man, prowling the ruins at night. BEST FRANK GOLDAMMER was »Reading The Air Raid Killer may SELLING born in Dresden in 1975. AUTHOR A painter and varnisher by A Thousand Devils (vol. II) keep you up more nights than most 352 pages trade, he began writing in his December 2019 early twenties, self-publishing Dresden, 1947: The city lies within the Soviet mysteries, breathless from the his first novels. For dtv he has occupation zone and is still a desert of rubble explosions and in awe of Heller’s written several successful and ruins. Inspector Max Heller is summoned historical crime thrillers set in to the scene of a crime in Dresden Neustadt by conviction.« - Gabriella Page-Fort, Max Heller remains true to himself - but the gap that is dividing the Dresden and its surroundings. the newly-instigated People’s Police. The victim Amazon Crossing A single parent, he lives with seems to be a Red Army soldier. But before he country also starts to fragment his own family his twin children in Dresden. gets a chance to begin his investigations he discovers that the Russian military has Summer 1953: Daily life in the new German Democratic Republic (GDR) is removed the corpse from the scene... Rights sold: becoming difficult. The ongoing shortages of everything continue. The English language, Arabic language, population’s dissatisfaction grows, and the number of those fleeing the country Greece, Hungary, The increases continuously. The government of the Socialist Union Party harshly The Forgotten (vol. III) imposes its demands and mercilessly hunts down its opponents. Even Max and Karin Heller consider fleeing to the West. On June 17, the political situation Dresden 1948: a hot summer, three years after escalates as large-scale protest movements grow everywhere. the end of the war. The great currency reform This is the point at which Detective Inspector Heller is called to a Dresden throws occupied and divided post-war insulation factory: its director and former owner has been brutally murdered. Is Germany into a crisis. In the midst of the he a victim of the rebels? Heller’s suspicions run along other lines. In the midst arduous reconstruction work, Detective of the people’s revolt, he searches for an unpredictable murderer. At the same Inspector Max Heller finds himself entangled time, Karin demands that he takes a decision: run or stay? in a case involving a fourteen-year-old boy, whose cause of death is anything but clear. While investigating this case, Heller runs up against a wall of silence. • Total sales of Frank Goldammer’s books with dtv: 120,000 copies Red Raven (vol. IV) • Trust viewers of Tom Tykwer's Babylon Berlin to pick up Goldammer's books • Frank Goldammer's books span the time period from the last days of the World War II In late summer 1951, Detective Inspector Heller is worried, but his new case isn’t to the construction of the Berlin Wall - pure tension, compelling and vibrantly leaving him any time to brood. Two men, narrated Jehovah’s Witnesses, being held under suspicion of espionage die in their prison cells. And other mysterious deaths follow. A cryptic message is found next to one of the victims and a horrifying suspicion rises in Heller.

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Leo Berlin (vol. I)

Berlin 1922. Germany is divided into two rival political factions; with their defeat at the end of the First World War, the people seem unable to Susanne Goga settle down and come to terms with peace. Detective superintendent Leo Wechsler, a widower with two children, has to investigate a mysterious The Dance Hall Murder murder: a faith healer, whose wealthy patients were mostly women, has been found dead – the murder weapon a jade sculpture of Buddha. There are no witnesses, and no further clues. But the healer had his secrets: it turns (vol. VII) out that he was supplying many of his patients with cocaine. Soon after, a prostitute is murdered. Leo suspects the two murders are connected. His

investigations take him to elegant mansions, squalid tenements, cocaine Topel © Myriam dens and red light districts, but every time he thinks he’s on to something, 280 pages BEST the trail goes cold. Leo’s tenacity, however, is legendary… July 2005 SELLING AUTHOR SUSANNE GOGA was born in 1967. She studied literary translation in Düsseldorf and Rights sold: Italy 320 pages has been translating as a December 2019 freelance from English and French since 1995. A dead body in Clärchen’s Ballroom

Berlin, Summer 1928. A dresser is found murdered in Bühler’s ballroom, a dance establishment on the Auguststraße, which is also known as Clärchen’s dance hall. Clärchen, the owner, is stunned. Was the murder specifically intended to harm her establishment?

Inspector Leo Wechsler’s case is further complicated by an unknown woman present at the crime scene, a series of unsolved sexual crimes in Frankfurt Death in Blue (vol. II) The Dead Woman of Murder in Babelsberg (vol. IV) which show some similarities to the current case, and the sympathies of the 300 pages Charlottenburg (vol. III) 320 pages victim’s Communist ex-lover. Wechsler and his colleagues pursue their February 2007 304 pages February 2014 investigation in a world shaped by the Charleston, champagne, and wild July 2012 pleasure.

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It happened in Nighttime at Schöneberg (vol. V) Ascanian Square (vol. VI) 336 pages 320 pages January 2016 February 2018

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Felicity Whitmore Susanne Mischke Felicity Whitmore SUSANNE MISCHKE Blank Space The Forgotten Voices of Chastle House

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SUSANNE MISCHKE was born FELICITY WHITMORE THRILLER _ in Kempten in the Allgäu Alps manages, along with her 320 pages and lives in Hanover. One of 416 pages husband, an independent August 2019 the best-known thriller writers October 2019 theater in Hagen, where she for both young readers and works as a drama consultant, adults in the German-speaking director and actress. Once a Why. Am. I. Here? world, she is the recipient of the Echoes of the past year, she travels to England Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg to satisfy her passion for the This is the question Carolin asks herself when she wakes up in a Prize for Literature and the Dione Dearine, 27 years old, an international popstar, flees from her overly Victorian era and old English psychiatric clinic two days later without any memories. No sense of why “Agathe”—the City of Wies- public life to Chastle House, an old family estate in the English Lake District. country houses. she has landed here, no sense of why she is being kept here. However, she baden’s award for female crime Dione becomes Diana, who needs a little time to get used to her new suspects that it might have something to do with the disappearance of her fiction authors. Her books have independence. But then she falls in love with the old house at the lake - with friend and roommate Odile. Odile, who looked out for Carolin after the been translated into several its creaking boards and spacious rooms, with the landscape’s rough charms, latter had moved into the flatshare on the houseboat. Odile, the languages and many of them and with her new life. She also finds herself falling for Aiden, the farmer who fascinating, charismatic art student who had vanished without a trace have been made into television introduces her to all this. But the walls of Chastle House are hiding a horrifying several weeks ago. But then the real shock comes during Carolin’s films. family secret... conversations with her attending psychologist: Maart, the third roommate in their flatshare, was murdered – and Carolin was found holding the murder weapon...

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Astrid Ruppert Reinhard Rohn Days of Light The Seven Lives of Anton Busch © Peter Porst © Peter Schleyer © Susanne

ASTRID RUPPERT worked REINHARD ROHN was born as a dramatic consultant and in Osnabruck in 1959. He producer for television works as the head of a 480 pages productions after completing 432 pages publishing house and divides October 2019 her degree in literature. She November 2019 his time between Cologne lives in the countryside, and and Berlin. Rohn translated works as an author and numerous detective novels How can you become the woman you want to be? screenwriter. “I was five years old when I first realized that I could read minds.” into German before starting to write crime fiction of his own. Under the pseudonym One mild summer’s night in 1906, young, headstrong Lisette, the daughter of Little Anton inherited the gift for reading minds from his beloved grandfather, a Arne Blum, he has already wealthy builder Otto Winter, secretly runs away from her parents’ home and goose keeper who had always dreamed of being a violinist. With this gift, Anton published three novels everything she previously knew as her life. Her heart belongs to fashion design saved his mother’s life. This is the memory that begins the life story of the now featuring Kim the pig- and to the young tailor Emile. Far outside the boundaries of her conservative, almost eighty-year-old Anton Busch. Born in 1939 as the seventh child in a detective. imperially loyalist society, they want to start a family in which they can call their farming family, he tells the story of his impoverished childhood, about the war, own shots and live freely. Emile sews the vibrant, flowing gowns designed by and about his family’s flight. He grew up in the young during the Lisette, and the couple quickly becomes famous for their extravagant reform economic wonder years. Worked, married, learned, loved, suffered, and lived like fashions. But then the First World War begins – bringing with it a whole new set everyone else. of challenges. As an elderly man, he realized two things: Every life is unique. And no person lives just one life. Sometimes they lead many...

• Volume One of the trilogy about four generations of the women in • A novel about a fascinating life, linked to significant historical the Winter family events while remaining focused on the essential elements: the • A novel about the courage required to pursue your dreams people • Crime author Reinhard Rohn strikes off on a new path, inspired by his great-uncle’s eventful life

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Heike Stöhr Ulrike Herwig The Devil’s Handwriting Empty Stockings, Cold Fireplace

576 pages 304 pages © Christine Fenzl August 2019 September 2019 Long © Mary Grace

HEIKE STÖHR born in Pirna Christmas XXL ULRIKE HERWIG taught “This mysterious book contains formulas which can defeat death.” in 1964, earned degrees in German in London for ten German Literature and years before moving to Pirna, 1544: Ever since the book with strange writing in it crossed her path as a History, and works as a The Bachmanns never dreamed of a Christmas like this! None of their grown Seattle with her family in child, Sophia has been devoted to solving its mystery. Master Heinrich Fuchs stands teacher in Berlin. She did daughters, who are now scattered around the globe, can make it home for 2001. She spends every free solidly by her side, having married Sophia after the death of Niklas, the father of her the research for her thesis Christmas this year. And so the Bachmann parents decide to take an moment at her desk, at which son. The unscrupulous town clerk, Wolf Schumann, has been secretly watching both on Saxon history in the Pirna adventurous international trip. Along with an elderly grandmother and a raw she has written several of them, and he has his own plans for the book’s magical powers. But then one day, Municipal Archive, focusing Christmas goose stuffed in their luggage, they visit one daughter after the other successful novels. the presumed dead Niklas suddenly appears in Pirna. on the subject matter she has in Berlin, London, and the US. Christmas Eve XXL! utilized in her novels. “Was it possible that the Master had leveraged his knowledge of alchemy to turn his wishes into reality?”

Brigitte Pons Astrid Ruppert Love is the Best Cook It’s Snowing Over There

320 pages 304 pages © Patrick Liste © Patrick February 2020 September 2019 Porst © Peter

ASTRID RUPPERT worked BRIGITTE PONS, born in as a dramatic consultant and People don’t kiss amateur cooks... 1967, lives near Frankfurt The magic of a Christmas evening producer for television am Main. She has published productions after completing several cozy and regional Against her better judgment, Miriam decides to do a favor for her ex-boyfriend The residents of an old apartment building are looking forward to the her degree in literature. Now mysteries. Felix. She agrees to take over a shabby, chaotic bistro for a few days. Fortunately approaching Christmas season with something less than enthusiasm. On every that she lives out in the for her, Selim (a chatty Turkish bus driver and dreamy amateur cook), Joannis (an floor, in every apartment, chaos, conflict or loneliness rule the day. Five-year- country, she continues to accountant and Selim’s friend), and the Syrian Hasim offer her assistance. old Jules is the only one whose faith in the Christ Child remains, and so he work as an author and decides to give the building’s occupants a celebration full of hope and love. A screenwriter. Everything might have gone well, except Miriam’s ex Felix shows up and suddenly touching Christmas tale about the joy of friendship. everything becomes horribly complicated.

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In the summer of 1896, a grand Swiss spa hotel becomes a refuge for Nika, a penniless beauty whose tortured past has left her unable to speak. While working in the manicured gardens, she DÖRTHE BINKERT born in becomes a muse to the celebrated painter Giovanni Segantini. Westfalia, studied German, As her ties to Segantini grow ever more complex, her search for love and truth becomes as Art History and Politics in perilous as the quest for an alpine summit – and her destiny is rewritten on the journey. Frankfurt. After working as chief editor for various Rights sold: English Language German publishers she is now living as a free-lance author and agent in Zurich.

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In July 1904 a big ocean liner is ready to start its journey to New York. Having lost her two-year- old son and caught in a marriage with a substantially older man, Valentina can no longer bear the pain and runs away to find a new way of life by boarding the ship. Rights sold: While on board, Valentina encounters all kinds of different people, and everybody has a story to English Language, tell – that is to say, there is always more to the person than the human eye can see. For Valentina the voyage constitutes the rite of passage before they embark on the even greater adventure of Poland building a new existence.

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MARIE BRUNNTALER was Marie Brunntaler born in the southern Black Martina Bergmann Forest and grew up on a farm. She graduated with a Wolf degree in biology, and during My Life with Martha the 1973 oil crisis, she began working to promote a new

ecological mindset in the ENGLISH 224 pages SAMPLE energy sector. She worked February 2019 TRANSLATION as a landscaping specialist. AVAILABLE Today she lives with her son Photografie © Sünderhuse near the Swiss border. Wolf is her second novel. MARTINA BERGMANN was Martina Bergmann takes care of Martha, a woman in her mid-80s who has a born in 1979 in Ostwestfalen. particularly poetic outlook on life. Neither can say anymore how this came to be, After graduating high school, 240 pages but they are so happy sharing the same house that it hardly matters. she fled to the big cities of September 2019 Munich, and Berlin. Pointedly and true to life Martina Bergmann portrays the experience of living She studied Humanities and is A wolf is the people’s person with Martha, someone who, despite her illness, remains full of humor and wit. Her a bookseller by trade. story shows that caring for someone suffering from dementia does not have to be a The Black Forest, 1820. A savage boy is found, but no one knows where he comes burden and, in fact, can be inspiring and life affirming. from. The adolescent Gabriel is handed over to a farming family for supervision. Because of his beauty and elegance, he casts a spell over the people he encounters. And while this unconventional living arrangement strikes passersby as odd, He also possesses extensive knowledge about homeopathy and saves the life of young Martina wouldn’t have it any other way. Maria. More and more of the villagers fall under Gabriel’s mysterious charms. When the farmer’s wife secretly falls in love with Gabriel, the events escalate and result in the deaths of several villagers. And the questions that occupy all of them become

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Penelope is a happily-married primary school teacher – until tragedy rips her little HANNI MÜNZER is one of family apart. She leaves her husband, breaks off all her friendships and almost Germany’s most successful entirely withdraws from the outside world. authors. Her Fisher of Souls series and the Honigtot saga It is only years later that she very slowly begins to feel her way back to life, to have reached millions of read- believe that love and happiness are possible. By her side are her mother and her ers, in Germany and neighbor Trudi, a fascinating woman in her eighties, with a mysterious past. Young internationally. Hanni Münzer Jason, who moves into the attic flat above her also plays a unique role in Penelope’s has lived in Seattle, Stuttgart new life. They all help Penelope learn that the world is full of wonder for those with and Rome, and has now settled in Upper Bavaria with The Simple Life eyes to see it. her husband. 250 pages Rights sold: Czech Republic, Italy May 2018

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Christopher Kloeble The Museum of the World Christopher Kloeble DAS An Indian orphan boy on a journey of a lifetime MUSEUM DER WELT Bartholomäus is an orphan boy from Bombay, about twelve years old, and Roman he speaks almost as many languages. This is why he is hired by the German Schlagintweit brothers, who, with the support of Alexander von Humboldt, are setting off on the greatest research expedition of their age in the year 1854. _ They employ Bartholomäus as their translator for their journey through India and the Himalayas. Bartholomäus’ fascination with these men is tinged with c. 400 pages distrust. Why are these three Germans measuring his country? Why are they To be published in collecting so many objects, and risking their lives to cross these unfamiliar February 2020 mountains? But this is his homeland – and after all he wants to become the man who establishes India’s first museum.

A fabulous adventure story that will change the way we view this amazing, contradictory country, as well as our own history.

Dora Heldt Mathilda, or Someone Always Dies

Dettebüll – where appearances are the most deceptive

Mathilda loves Dettebüll. She has lived here on her mother’s farmstead since infancy – and for over forty years with her husband Gunnar. Changes PRELIMINARY_ are torture for her. Her children have long since flown the proverbial coop. COVER premium However, Mathilda’s mother Ilse remains on the farm. Ilse – Mathilda’s opposite – is a pure mixture of spite and malice. For forty years, Mathilda c. 352 pages has functioned as the buffer that maintains peace in the household. To be published in March 2020 But then events start tumbling one after the other, and suddenly the first death occurs. In a tragic accident, Ilse is killed. Her funeral attracts strange visitors to Dettebüll, including a horde of Hell’s Angels who frighten the village residents out of their wits. And Ilse’s won’t remain the only death for long…

A tender, odd comedy about an idyllic country village into which the disdainful, coarse outside world finds its way

• Dora Heldt is a long-standing bestselling author with over 5 million copies sold.

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