Crime Couch

The Krimi-Couch (also Krimi-Couch.de ) is an advertising-financed online magazine of the Literatur-Couch Medien GmbH & Co. KG . It was founded in 2002. In 2009 she received the Grimme Online Award in the “Culture and Entertainment” category. It is regarded as one of the largest, independent online magazines on crime novels in the German-speaking world. The editor-in-chief is Andreas Kurth, the editors include Jochen König, Birgit Borloni, Michael Drewniok and Jörg Kijanski.

Krimi-Couch is aimed at crime readers and, in addition to current book reviews, also publishes author portraits and topic-related reports. Thrillers can be searched by author or region. Via the so-called crime advisor , the reader can get book recommendations based on criteria such as location, period of action or genre. In the reviews, the novels discussed are rated using a point system from 0 to 100 (0 = waste paper, 100 = masterpiece). Readers can rate and comment on a crime thriller. The most popular books are shown in a top 10 list. The editors and readers have been voting for the book of the year since 2017 .

Crime Blitz

From 2004 to 2007 and 2010 to 2015 the Krimi-Couch awarded the undoped literary prize Krimi-Blitz , an audience award. The editorial team of the Krimi-Couch nominated twenty titles from the previous year from the Krimi-Couch hits and the hit list that resulted from user ratings, as well as editorial tips. From this list the readers chose the winner.

Award winners

2004: The swarm of Frank Schätzing

2005: Die Forever by Peter James

2006: The Sins of the Fathers by Ian Rankin

2007: Damnation of Stieg Larsson

2010: Sin of East Frisia by Klaus-Peter Wolf

2011: Black Swan by Horst Eckert

2012: The Fatherland files by Volker Kutscher

2013: Noah by Sebastian Fitzek

2014: Cold Dog of Rainer Witt Kamp

2015: Bernhard Aichner's house of the dead

Book of the year

The editors and readers have been voting for the book of the year since 2017 . The book prize is not endowed. A jury consisting of the editor-in-chief of the literary couch media and selected members of the editorial team of the respective crime couch compiles a shortlist with the three favorites of the respective year. The winner will then be determined from these nominated titles.

Award winners

2017: The editorial winner was Ragdoll - Your Last Day by Daniel Cole , winner of the reader voting Das Schweigen von Brodersby by Stefanie Ross
2018: The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
2019: Alan Parks dies in February

Web links

Crime Couch. Literature Couch Media(homepage of Krimi-Couch).; accessed on August 25, 2020

Individual evidence

↑ About the crime thriller couch. Literatur-Couch Medien, August 24, 2020, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
^ Grimme Online Award 2009: The winners. In: Grimme Online Award . Retrieved August 26, 2020 .
↑ The literature couch chooses “Books of the Year 2018”. In: Book Market . January 11, 2019, accessed August 25, 2020 .
↑ Literatur-Couch awards “Book of the Year 2017”. Book Market , February 15, 2018, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
↑ Book of the Year 2018. In: Krimi-Couch. Retrieved August 25, 2020 .
↑ Book of the year 2019. In: Krimi-Couch. Retrieved August 25, 2020 .
^ Alan Parks (author), Conny Lösch (translator): Death in February . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-27198-2 .

[1] About the crime thriller couch. Literatur-Couch Medien, August 24, 2020, accessed on August 26, 2020 .

[2] Grimme Online Award 2009: The winners. In: Grimme Online Award . Retrieved August 26, 2020 .

[3] The literature couch chooses “Books of the Year 2018”. In: Book Market . January 11, 2019, accessed August 25, 2020 .

[4] Literatur-Couch awards “Book of the Year 2017”. Book Market , February 15, 2018, accessed on August 26, 2020 .

[5] Book of the Year 2018. In: Krimi-Couch. Retrieved August 25, 2020 .

[6] Book of the year 2019. In: Krimi-Couch. Retrieved August 25, 2020 .

[7] Alan Parks (author), Conny Lösch (translator): Death in February . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-27198-2 .