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Author_Friedrich Durrenmatt
bleak atmospheric crime fiction
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child murder investigation
chilling psychological suspense
classic crime novel
classic European noir
classic thriller
dark procedural mystery
desperate search for truth
detective driven to obsession
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European crime classic
false confession mystery
forthcoming
Friedrich Durrenmatt novel
gruppe olten
Hollywood film adaptation
Inspector Matthai
Jack Nicholson thriller film
literary crime
literary noir
moral ambiguity thriller
obsessive detective story
psychological noir thriller
relentless pursuit of killer
swiss crime
Swiss mountain murder
switzerland noir
Product details
- ISBN 9781805336440
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A book everybody should read' Jonathan Coe
'Powerful and compelling' Sunday Times Crime Club
'Jaw-dropping' Crime Review
'As terse and assured as the best of Simenon' Spectator
The brilliant Inspector Matthäi is haunted by the case of a young girl brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest. Even after a man is arrested and confesses to the crime, Matthäi is convinced the real killer is still out there. He makes a promise to the girl's mother: he will stop at nothing to bring the murderer to justice.
But Matthäi's pledge becomes an obsession, and soon he finds he is descending into the darkness himself...
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist, most famous for his plays The Visit and The Physicists, which earned him a reputation as one of the greatest playwrights in the German language. He also wrote four highly regarded crime novels - The Pledge, The Judge and His Hangman, Suspicion and The Execution of Justice, all of which will be published by Pushkin Vertigo.
Joel Agee is a writer and translator. He has received several prizes, including the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin in 2008 and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist's verse play Penthesilea. His translations of The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion are also available from Pushkin Vertigo.
