The crime fiction bookstore 'Murder and More' has it all: classic whodunits, Nordic noirs, British black humor – and cappuccino with a cocoa powder pistol on the milk foam. Owner Julia Hortmann loves books, people, and a good puzzle. She's just had little experience with real corpses. That changes when a new, overly inconspicuous tenant moves into the neighborhood – who suspiciously carries rolled-up carpets into his house at night. At the same time, deaths begin to mount at the nearby retirement home, where one of Julia's regular customers also lives. The police dismiss her claim, but Julia is convinced something's not right. So she does what booksellers with a passion for crime novels do—she investigates. Thoroughly. With intuition, intelligence, and humor. And before she knows it, she's in the middle of a case more deadly than anything between the covers of a book... biography Tatjana Kruse, born in 1960, grew up in Schwäbisch Hall, where she now lives again after several years in Stuttgart. Since 1995, she has published crime stories, novels, and non-fiction books, and also works as a literary translator. Tatjana Kruse is a member of 'Sisters in Crime' and the 'Syndikat' (German Crime Writers' Association). New product