Hansjorg Schneider

On the Radar: Friends, killers and secrets

7 March, 2025

The publishing schedule gets busy in March and our first news report of the month has five interesting novels to entice you. We get the ball rolling with Patrick Hoffman’s Friends Helping Friends – what a great title. We’ve also got crime fiction from Switzerland…

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The Murder of Anton Livius by Hansjörg Schneider

By crimefictionlover

17 July, 2023

Translated by Astrid Freuler — Following the Basel Killings and Silver Pebbles, The Murder of Anton Livius is the third novel in the Inspector Peter Hunkeler series by the Swiss playwright and author Hansjörg Schneider. Originally written in the Schweizerdeutsch dialect, the novels give crime…

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On the Radar: New books for June

By crimefictionlover

2 June, 2023

Just like last week, we’re starting our column with a book in the rural noir category and author Chris Offutt has become a favourite in the sub-genre. His third Mick Hardin novel is out on 13 June. We have crime in translation from Switzerland with…

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Silver Pebbles by Hansjörg Schneider

By RoughJustice

13 January, 2022

Translated by Mike Mitchell — Basel CID Inspector Peter Hunkeler, first seen in translation in last year’s The Basel Killings, is stuck in traffic on his way to the train station. The Basel police department has received a tip off from their German counterparts that…

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On the Radar: January novels to savour

By crimefictionlover

31 December, 2021

We started 2021 not knowing what would happen with COVID and the economy, and 2022 gets underway with similar uncertainty. At least you can count on Crime Fiction Lover to bring you the latest new crime releases in our On the Radar column. Our latest…

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The Basel Killings by Hansjörg Schneider

By nagaisayonara

30 July, 2021

Translated by Mike Mitchell — Basel is an icy city during the winter, situated in a corner of Switzerland just spitting distance from both France and Germany. It’s a different Switzerland to the ski slopes, Swiss watches and secretive banks; Basel is a snowbound city…

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First look: The Basel Killings by Hansjörg Schneider

By crimefictionlover

28 April, 2021

The name Hansjörg Schneider may not mean much to you, but in the German-speaking world he is an important literary figure. Based in Basel, Switzerland, Schneider is a famous playwright and philosopher who, in 1993, began a series of crime novels about a Basel detective…

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On the Radar: Friends, killers and secrets

The Murder of Anton Livius by Hansjörg Schneider

On the Radar: New books for June

Silver Pebbles by Hansjörg Schneider

On the Radar: January novels to savour

The Basel Killings by Hansjörg Schneider

First look: The Basel Killings by Hansjörg Schneider

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