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Cornflower Blue

A Case for 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, General Fiction
368 pages
2013

978-3-257-06833-7

World rights are handled by Diogenes

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»An honest and depressing look into the workings of a deeply disturbed country.«
Lilo Solcher / Augsburger Allgemeine
»›Cornflower Blue‹ is rich in description as thrillers can only be when their authors stick to their own territory.«
Susan Vahabzadeh / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

»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.«

Petra Mies / Buchjournal, Frankfurt
»A tremendous thriller about sensitive issues like political corruption, nationalist lunacy and the massacres between Serbs and Bosnians in the 1990s.«
Wolfgang Bortlik / 20 Minuten, Zurich
»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.«
Kerryn Goldsworthy / The Sydney Morning Herald

»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.«

Elmar Krekeler / Die Welt, Berlin
»An honest and depressing look into the workings of a deeply disturbed country.«
Lilo Solcher / Augsburger Allgemeine
»›Cornflower Blue‹ is rich in description as thrillers can only be when their authors stick to their own territory.«
Susan Vahabzadeh / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

»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.«

Petra Mies / Buchjournal, Frankfurt
»A tremendous thriller about sensitive issues like political corruption, nationalist lunacy and the massacres between Serbs and Bosnians in the 1990s.«
Wolfgang Bortlik / 20 Minuten, Zurich
»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.«
Kerryn Goldsworthy / The Sydney Morning Herald

»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.«

Elmar Krekeler / Die Welt, Berlin
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