Silentium!

A truly delightful novel. Once again, a bishop candidate emerges from the venerable Marianum - something that the Salzburg boys' boarding school is genuinely proud of. If only it weren't for the ugly rumors surrounding the rising churchman. And the 23 plastic bags full of body parts... Wolf Haas has already won the German Crime Prize for "Silentium" for the third time. He also appears in the film adaptation of his own book. Joining him are Joachim Król, Udo Samel, Christoph Schlingensief, Anne Bennent, and of course Josef Hader as detective Brenner. Wolf Haas has ink-black humor and a keen eye for the abysses of the human species, which only reveal themselves in the Alpine Republic, where brutality stubbornly nests within coziness. "Silentium!" takes the worldly-wise Vienna private detective Brenner to a Salzburg boys' boarding school.