Fir solitude

Who did the killing? Was he a man at all, or a symbolic black rider, about whom oral stories are told in the region. A gripping drama of the merciless murder of a landowning family with elements of a psychological study. The subject of the book Fir Solitude is a real event that happened in Bavaria after the World War. The perpetrator was never convicted. The details are revealed by the residents of the mountain village during interrogations by the police. The main narrator is an unknown observer (a kind of God's eye or alter ego of the murderer). Andrea Maria Schenkel, the author of Fir Solitude, has inserted a murderer into her literary story. She picked one of the prime suspects in the investigation of the actual event. She therefore leaned towards one of the most likely versions. The Fir Tree's Solitude has been awarded several literary prizes, including the Deutscher Krimi Preis and the Swedish Martin Beck Award. More than one million copies of the book were sold in Germany, a successful audiobook was produced and a film was made. The book has also been published in many other countries around the world.