Lesung mit Beate Maly

Reading with Beate Maly
Aurelia and the Quest for Happiness
A Historical Vienna Mystery

From the contents:

"January 1872, ball season in Vienna: not a good time for young countesses who don’t want to get married. The rest of the city is in a frenzy of excitement; lottery tickets are the entertainment of the moment. Baron von Sothen has made his fortune selling lottery tickets—and left many people penniless. He lives in splendor and glory in a small castle on the Cobenzl—until he is shot dead. Bad luck for the greedy baron, but good luck for Chief Inspector Janek Pokorny, because whenever a murder occurs in high society, the young Countess Aurelia von Kolowitz isn’t far away. But the aristocratic amateur detective has other worries: her publisher no longer wants to print her caricatures, her father wants to marry her off to a candy manufacturer, and Janek, who had wanted to invite her to the theater after their last case, has never been in touch again. As always, the men in Aurelia’s life are nothing but trouble. But then the baron’s widow enters the picture—and when it comes to greed and villainy, she puts many a man to shame."
PUBLISHER: Dumont

Beate Maly
“Beate Maly was born in Vienna in 1970, where she still lives today. She began writing about 20 years ago. She specializes in historical novels and historical crime novels. She was nominated for the Leo Perutz Prize in 2019 and 2023, and in 2021 she won the Silver Homer." ©Literaturagentur Wildner

Supported by the BVÖ with funding from the BMWKMS library promotion program.