Pledge

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvFriedrich Dürrenmatt

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'A book everybody should read' Jonathan Coe

'Powerful and compelling' Sunday Times Crime Club

'Jaw-dropping' Crime Review

'As terse and assured as the best of Simenon' Spectator

The brilliant Inspector Matthäi is haunted by the case of a young girl brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest. Even after a man is arrested and confesses to the crime, Matthäi is convinced the real killer is still out there. He makes a promise to the girl's mother: he will stop at nothing to bring the murderer to justice.

But Matthäi's pledge becomes an obsession, and soon he finds he is descending into the darkness himself...

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-30
Mått129 x 198 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagPushkin Press
ISBN9781805336440
ÖversättareJoel Agee

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist, most famous for his plays The Visit and The Physicists, which earned him a reputation as one of the greatest playwrights in the German language. He also wrote four highly regarded crime novels - The Pledge, The Judge and His Hangman, Suspicion and The Execution of Justice, all of which will be published by Pushkin Vertigo.Joel Agee is a writer and translator. He has received several prizes, including the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin in 2008 and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist's verse play Penthesilea. His translations of The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion are also available from Pushkin Vertigo.