Even with a lower production rate (which largely represents the differential success in such a popular black genre), the German Nele neuhaus could be compared to his compatriot the great Charlotte Link. But as I say, the tempos, the cadence of publications, rule and Neuhaus seems not to force encounters with his muses precisely.
But oh coincidences of fate, sometimes the exception proves the rule. Because a powerful narrative imaginary, characters that dazzle and plots that tense the muscles of the neck, like an exercise table with Jane Fonda, can be inserted into the memory with unusual power. This is how the Bodenstein and Kirchhoff saga (o taunus series by the mountain range where everything happens) still keeps readers from all over the world in suspense waiting for more deliveries. For now, the reissues keep the shock wave moving until the next novel or sequel appears unexpectedly.
And there are also studies that assure that we are learning to forget what attacks us more repetitively in order to value more what happens more sporadically (always in terms of books or series, as I understood). And so an author like Nele finds the opportunity to maintain her strength despite her lack of commercial rhythm. Of course, for that to happen, quality comes first so that we never forget the wolf that lives in the wildest heart of Germany.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Nele Neuhaus
Snow White Must Die
Everything has a double reading and a double vision. The candidness and warmth of a story can turn cold and dark when its patterns are slightly modified. Because almost every fable, story and even parable if you hurry me deals with good and evil, about pyrrhic victories of goodness against temptations that are difficult to overcome, hidden violence and animosity. Yes, there are surely those who thought, at the end of her story, that Snow White should die.
In this case it is only a matter of devising the best plan, of giving the worst of oneself to find the scenery that best accompanies the psychopathy with which to build a script that surprises everyone and that finally glorifies the very demon capable of giving it the back to the story so that no one forgets that evil also triumphs. And when it does, it is big.
On a gloomy November day, workers find a human skeleton on an old airfield. Shortly after, someone pushes a woman off a bridge. The investigation leads Chief Inspector Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff to investigate events from the past: many years ago, in the small town of Altenhain, two girls disappeared without a trace. The young Tobias Sartorius ended up behind bars without evidence. He has now been released from prison and returned to the town, where the disappearance of another girl will unleash a real witch hunt.
The big bad wolf
The wolf is the paradigm of the sinister, of the atavistic fears that still associate humans with their most immediate natural environment. Because the wolf lives near man waiting for easy prey among his livestock. It's about eating, nothing more than that. If we get lost one day in the forest, perhaps he will avoid us because he knows that man is already a wolf for man, too perverse for him, who only wants to feed...
One hot day in June, they find the body of a sixteen-year-old girl in the River Main, in a town near Frankfurt. Everything indicates that she has been a victim of mistreatment and that she has been murdered, but no one has reported her disappearance. After weeks of work, one of the leads leads Inspectors Pia Kirchoff and Oliver von Bodenstein to a well-known TV presenter. Pia and Oliver will have to break through the facade of bourgeois society to come face to face with a plot that is about to impact their own lives.
The one who sows winds, reaps storms
La Taunus series novel that to a greater extent moves away from its suspense line to address more classic aspects of black. Corruption and death. Prices for everything and everyone. Speculation and suspicions with the background of the ecological as an essential point from which to build a controversial plot also in the background.
A wind farm leads to a harsh confrontation between its defenders and detractors, but can this hatred lead to killing someone? As soon as she returns from vacation, Inspector Pia Kirchhoff receives a call from her boss Oliver von Bodenstein: she must report immediately to Kelkheim, where her body has been found. Murder or accident, the matter would be banal if it were not for the fact that the victim is the night watchman of the company WindPro, recently in everyone's sights for its more than controversial construction of a wind farm in Taunus; project that has the resistance of many neighbors.
There are also rumors of corruption and falsified expert opinions. When another victim appears shortly after, the police ask themselves: Is the culprit passing over the corpse of whoever it takes to get away with it? Oliver and Pia have to face one of the most difficult cases of their careers.
