Dark figure (crime thriller)

The crime novel Dunkelziffer is a thriller by the German-Greek author Dimitris Papakonstantinou and was first published by Rowohlt in 1988 .

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Papakonstantinou suddenly turns a moral picture of an average, middle-class Greek immigrant family with second-generation adult children, drawn precisely but not without relaxed humor , into a thriller. A close school friendship with a son from a wealthy Hanseatic family turns into a GAU of the peaceful family relationship structures due to his sudden, violent death . The members get on with it very differently. The behavior of the son, who was initially suspected of being, is increasingly becoming a puzzle for everyone involved, and is described in an exciting way from several perspectives. The book turns out to be more and more a psychological thriller .

The title dark number is unexpectedly explained as an allusion of a funny secondary character, a young snob of agency employees, to the "dark number of the lucky ones" - those who never, ever need a dating agency . Remarkably, the appearing police psychologist is a pure secondary character with a slight jealousy problem. In its construction and character drawings, the novel satisfies literary criteria without compromising, is not a hastily written accumulation of clichés.

literature

Dimitris Papakonstantinou: Unreported number . Rowohlt TB-V., Rnb. (1988). ISBN 3499182432