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Christian Schünemann Jelena Volic

Cornflower Blue

Band 1

Milena Lukin

A Case for Milena Lukin

Band 1

Milena Lukin

Published by Diogenes as Kornblumenblau

Original Title: Kornblumenblau

On the night of the 11th of July, two guardsmen from the Serbian elite unit are making their rounds in the Topcider military camp. The next morning, they are found dead. The military court issues an official report claiming that they were the victims of a dishonourable ritual suicide, and the investigation is promptly closed. Lawyer Sinisa Stojkovic is commissioned by the parents of the dead guardsmen to launch a private investigation. He asks his old friend, Milena Lukin, a specialist in international law, for her assistance. But her investigations start to irritate certain individuals, and her life ends up in grave danger. A dreadful suspicion begins to build: it seems that the guards saw something they shouldn't have seen. Could it have had something to do with the anniversary of the worst massacre in European history since World War II?

Crime Fiction, Contemporary Literature
368 pages
2013

978-3-257-06833-7

Christian

Schünemann

Christian Schünemann, born in 1968 in Bremen, studied Slavic Studies in Berlin and Saint Petersburg. He has worked in Moscow and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and was a storyliner and screenwriter. Diogenes has previously published his crime series about the star hairdresser Tomas Prinz, and his crime novels — co-written with Jelena Volič — about the Serbian amateur detective Milena Lukin. Christian Schünemann lives in Berlin.

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Lilo Solcher
Augsburger Allgemeine

»An honest and depressing look into the workings of a deeply disturbed country.«

Susan Vahabzadeh
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

»›Cornflower Blue‹ is rich in description as thrillers can only be when their authors stick to their own territory.«

Petra Mies
Buchjournal, Frankfurt

»This crime novel makes the reader both want to go to Belgrade and to look again at the almost forgotten war in the heart of Europe – and to hear more of Milena Lukin.«

Wolfgang Bortlik
20 Minuten, Zurich

»A tremendous thriller about sensitive issues like political corruption, nationalist lunacy and the massacres between Serbs and Bosnians in the 1990s.«

Kerryn Goldsworthy
The Sydney Morning Herald

»This book gives valuable insight into the Bosnian war and its aftermath. It is well written, and it demonstrates that the conventions of crime fiction, intelligently followed, produce highly readable and similar kinds of stories across a range of languages and cultures.«

Elmar Krekeler
Die Welt, Berlin

»Milena Lukin is a wonderful, unfathomable woman still swathed in a cocoon of secrecy, even at the end of her debut appearance. Belgrade made flesh.«