THE SOLOIST

  • Start of a new series with the headstrong character detective Neuhaus.
  • Previous titles sold more than 1 million copies and rights were sold to: Czech Republic (Host), Netherlands (De Geus), Korea (Korea Economic), Poland (Czarne) and Spain (Artime)!
  • His Marthaler crime novels were filmed for ZDF and seen by over 30 million people.
  • Seghers has been awarded important literary prizes such as the Marburg Literature Prize, the Burgdorf Crime Thriller Prize and the Offenbach Literature Prize.

He's got his eyes on the terrorists. And on his own colleagues.
In the summer of 2017, Frankfurt investigator Neuhaus joins SETA - the special anti-terrorism unit based in a shack on Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin. The troop was formed in order to rule out future failures by the security authorities, such as the famous NSU killings or the terror attack on the Berlin Christmas market. Elections are approaching, the situation in the capital has drastically worsened, while the country is longing for peace. Neuhaus was brought in to support his Berlin colleagues. But at the same time he is to keep an eye on them. Because the security authorities have a Nazi problem.

A series of murders is devastating the Republic. The victims: a young Jewish activist, a Muslim publicist and a parliamentary state secretary. What connects them? An absolute mystery. Neuhaus, the soloist, sets off on a search.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hundert Augen
  • Release: 26.01.2021
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-05848-7
  • 240 Pages
  • Author: Jan Seghers

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THE SOLOIST
Jan Seghers THE SOLOIST
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Jan Seghers

Jan Seghers, alias Matthias Altenburg, was born in 1958 and is a writer, critic and essayist, who lives in Frankfurt am Main. He followed up the success of An All Too Beautiful Girl and The Snow Bride with Partitur des Todes, for which he received the Offenbach Literature Prize and the Burgdorfer Crime Writing Prize. His other novels include The Rosenherz Case and The Sterntaler Conspiracy. All his novels have been dramatized for TV on Germany’s national ZDF network, with a total of over 30 million viewers.