Title: Todesfrist (Maarten S. Sneijder und Sabine Nemez 1) | L30??
Book type: Novel
Available formats: physical / ebook / audiobook
Summary - German
Ein Serienmörder treibt sein Unwesen – und ein altes Kinderbuch dient ihm als grausame Inspiration. »Wenn Sie innerhalb von 48 Stunden herausfinden, warum ich diese Frau entführt habe, bleibt sie am Leben. Falls nicht – stirbt sie.« Mit dieser Botschaft beginnt das perverse Spiel eines Serienmörders. Er lässt seine Opfer verhungern, ertränkt sie in Tinte oder umhüllt sie bei lebendigem Leib mit Beton. Verzweifelt sucht die Münchner Kommissarin Sabine Nemez nach einer Erklärung, einem Motiv. Erst als sie einen niederländischen Kollegen hinzuzieht, entdecken sie zumindest ein Muster: Ein altes Kinderbuch dient dem Täter als grausame Inspiration – und das birgt noch viele Ideen … Der Auftakt zur Erfolgsserie um die Ermittler Sneijder und Nemez.
Summary - English
A serial killer is up to mischief - and an old children’s book serves as his gruesome inspiration. “If you find out why I kidnapped this woman within 48 hours, she will live. If not - she dies.” The perverse game of a serial killer begins with this message. He starves his victims to death, drowns them in ink or encases them alive in concrete. Munich detective Sabine Nemez desperately searches for an explanation, a motive. Only when she calls in a Dutch colleague do they at least discover a pattern: an old children’s book serves as the perpetrator’s gruesome inspiration - and it still holds many ideas … The prelude to the successful series about investigators Sneijder and Nemez.
(Translator: DeepL)
Content Warnings
Detailed depiction of violence / drug use / death …and maybe more.
Reason(s) for nominating:
Recently I wanted a change from the fantasy setting which I am generally reading/listening and decided to listen to some thriller/mystery books next. While looking through this category on audible I came across the books by Andreas Gruber. I first heard another series (the Walter Pulaski-Series) by him, and I loved all of the books!
Then I read that his Sneijder and Nemez-Series is even more popular, so I immediately started with this one as well. Currently I am already nearly finished with the second book in the series. “Todesfrist” ist the first one in the series, though.
I wasn’t sure which one of the series I should nominate, because I liked every book I read by him for now, but I went with this one, just because I felt is was generally more popular and there is even a TV movie for this book (even though I haven’t seen it yet and can’t say whether it is any good).
By the way, Andreas Gruber is also an austrian author. And part of the story plays in Austria, but I think it is written for the german market (germany), because no words were unfamiliar for me as far as I remember 
