Karsten Dusse, MURDER MINDFULLY

Heyne - Crime Novel - Pocket Book - June 2019 - 416 pages

“One thing first. I'm not a violent person. On the contrary. For example, I've never been in a fight in my life. And I didn't kill anyone until I was 48 years old. In my current professional environment, this is rather late. Well, the following week, I had almost half a dozen full. Now, this may sound unpleasant at first. But everything I did, I did with the best intentions. It was the logical result of a mindful change of life. To have my work and family life in balance.”

The lawyer Björn Diemel is forced by his wife to go to a mindfulness seminar to sort his marriage out, prove himself a good father and recover his work-life balance. The course really does bear fruit and Björn can even make practical use of all the things he learned at his job, albeit in a completely unexpected way. When a client, a brutal and more than guilty big-time criminal, starts making huge problems, Björn simply kills him – according to all the rules of mindfulness.

"Mindful Murder" is the story of a deliberate and slowed down murder. The mindfulness and crime genres have closed ranks and the result is, more than anything else, highly unusual and entertaining fiction.

• More than one million copies of the “Murder Mindfully” series sold

• Constantly reaching #1 on the SPIEGEL Best Seller list

• The bestselling novel of 2020

• English sample translation available

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