by Joan Aiken · Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783866152663
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«Die Kristallkrähe» is the suspense novel by Joan Aiken, published by Süddeutsche Zeitung in hardcover (251 pages, in German).
In Cornwall, a vacation for a group of acquaintances turns into a dangerous coexistence: a writer lives with a jealous friend, a doctor diagnoses her brother with a terminal illness, and several eccentrics heighten the tension. Misunderstandings drag the protagonist toward danger, with an escaped leopard and a somber ending.
Volume 42 of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Kriminalbibliothek collection. Translated from English by Helmut Degner; originally published as The Crystal Crow (1967).
For readers of crime fiction and psychological suspense who appreciate ensemble plots, secrets among friends, and British settings.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
