Oliver Bottini

The White Circle by Oliver Bottini follows Chief Inspector Louise Boni of the Freiburg criminal police as she receives intelligence about two guns purchased from a Russian criminal network. Desperate to prevent a fatal act of violence, Boni swiftly investigates the situation. Boni quickly identifies the vehicle used to collect the weapons, but encounters a setback as the car's owner...

NOW SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER "Gripping" Tatler The first in a thrilling new crime series set in Germany - the BLACK FOREST INVESTIGATIONS Zen and the Art of Murder introduces us to Louise Boni, a maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, who is battling her personal demons. At forty-two, after a painful divorce, she finds...

Berlin: A man is beaten up, the attacker escapes undetected. As a trail leads to Freiburg, Chief Inspector Louise Boni is sent to investigate. It's a complex case: the attacker appears to be a professional, the victim a secret service informer, the only witness knows more than she's saying, and the domestic intelligence service is hovering in the background but...