Monika Geier

Monika Geier (born April 17, 1970 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German crime writer.

Life

After graduating from high school, Monika Geier trained as a draftsman and then studied architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern . She initially practiced her writing alongside her work as a graduate engineer , but then gave up the profession in favor of writing and the family. The mother of three children has been living as a freelance writer in Thaleischweiler-Fröschen since 2009 .

In her first novel from 1999 " How can you sleep " she created the superintendent Bettina Boll as the heroine. In the next few years, four more detective novels followed, each of which is based in the Palatinate . The distinctive characters that populate her novels are remarkable.

In 2000 she received the Marlowe detective award from the German Raymond Chandler Society for her debut novel .

Works

• 1999 How can you sleep - Argument, Ariadne series , Hamburg. ISBN 3-88619-840-5
• 2001 See Naples - Argument, Ariadne series, Hamburg. ISBN 3-88619-866-9
• 2003 Stone is forever - Argument, Ariadne series, Hamburg. ISBN 3-88619-880-4
• 2007 Wild boar argument, Ariadne series, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-86754-174-9
• 2009 The hearts of all girls - Argument, Ariadne detective novels, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-86754-184-8
• 2011 Müller's Murders - Argument, Ariadne series, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-86754-200-5
• 2013 The Hex is dead - Argument, Ariadne series, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-86754-216-6
• 2017 Everything so bright ahead - Argument, Ariadne series, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-86754-223-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Monika Geier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Monika Geier in the crime lexicon
• Monika Geier , website