»He lifted German mystery writing onto a new level with The Snowman and The Snake Mouth.«

»Fauser, who was a heroin addict in his early years, shows his insight into the milieu in which Blum moves and there are moments of sardonic humour as he plumbs the depths of human desperation and degradation.«

»A story bursting with delightful scenes and characters.«

»Damn, what a crazy good story!«

»Jörg Fauser knew his way around the world he wrote about. The Snowman is a story from the streets, a crime story, it’s a story about a loser’s attempt to win just once.«

»The best German thriller of all times.«

»Jörg Fauser’s The Snowman is a dubious but likeable guy. A man who gets through life with petty crime, has a big sense of humour and not a trace of self-pity. Fauser’s dense descriptions are a success – whether of Munich’s chic society or Cologne’s run-down drug scene.«

»Jörg Fauser was one of our best: bolshie, earthy, vulnerable. With Blum, the jaded porn-mag dealer who happens to come into possession of a whole lot of coke, he built a monument to the stereotype of the literary loser: romantic naivety and suspicion – no mean alliance.«

»Jörg Fauser’s dry sarcastic crime novel has long held cult status.«

»Fauser, a heroin addict until he kicked the habit at 30, pulls no punches in his lean, darkly comic debut crime thriller.«

»This strange late 1970s melancholy and the beginnings of the over refined decadence and lethargic indifference of the '80s, all of this is accurately captured here. And the key metaphor is cocaine. Brief scenes reminiscent of a screenplay make the book fast-paced.«