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Jan Weiler, KÜHN HAS A LOT TO DO

Piper - Crime Novel - Hardcover - March 2015 - 320 pages

The first case of Commissioner Kühn. Followed by KÜHN IS IN TROUBLE and KÜHN IS HUNGRY.

Husband, father, friend, policeman, neighbor - and completely exhausted.
Martin Kühn is 44, married and has two children. He lives on Weberhöhe, a new housing estate near Munich. There used to be a munition factory, but Kühn doesn’t know exactly what it was all about. There is a lot he doesn’t know anyway: For example, why only a tiny amount of his salary as a policeman is left to live on. Whether he can imagine a rendezvous with his red-haired neighbor without shame. Why he can get any murderer to talk, but his son doesn’t even exchange two sentences with him. What secret he hides from himself. And above all, why his head is always so full.

Then an old man is found stabbed to death just behind Kühn’s garden. And suddenly Kühn has a lot to do.

  • “A very modern social novel.” - FAZ

  • “Weiler's way of writing is unique. Full of bite, humour, eloquent, captivating and sometimes abysmal. Whoever reads 'Kühn has a lot to do' suddenly has a lot to do himself: Because you never want to put that book down.” - Münchner Merkur

  • “Weiler has created a strong commissioner, one who is a type and has the strength to turn a crime novel into literature.” - Süddeutsche Zeitung

  • “This man can write.” - Brigitte

  • “A big book about the little people. Well observed, cautiously written, and perhaps that is why it is so strong.” - Christine Westermann

  • “A very clever book about where evil lives: under German roofs.” - Denis Scheck

  • “In his book, Weiler [...] interweaves clever observations of society, human interior views and historical concerns in an exciting whodunit plot. With a lightness that, like the title, tends towards the laconic, he succeeds in raising himself linguistically above the bourgeois confinement in which his protagonists suffer.” - Die Welt

  • More than 3 million books of Jan Weiler have been sold

  • 35 weeks on the SPIEGEL Best Seller list

  • English synopsis available

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