Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
... to the many readers who voted for me and made this award possible for me.
What an honor, after Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser, Fred Vargas, and Jussi Adler-Olsen, to be the first German to receive the European Prize for Crime Fiction. This is an unexpected and wonderful gift for my tenth anniversary as an author.
Over 13 years ago, one of my first rejection letters stated that they regretted to inform me, but did not believe there were more than a „handful of paranoids“ in Germany who would be interested in such stories.
I am very glad that the man was mistaken about the number of „patients“ back then. 😉
Thank you so much for allowing me to write for you – and thank you, of course, to the selection jury and the entire Mord am Hellweg team for the European Crime Fiction Prize!
