Welcome to the official Homepage of
Horst Eckert, crime writer
The Author
was born in 1959 in Bavaria, studied political sciences in Erlangen and Berlin and worked as a TV-journalist for fifteen years. Today he is a freelance writer and lives in Düsseldorf.
The thriller "Sprengkraft" (Explosive Force) is new on the German book market now, published by Grafit.
The previous novel "Königsallee" ranked in the top ten of the international "KrimiWelt-Bestenliste" (August 2007).
For years, reviewers have called Eckert one of the most important German crime writers.
Eckert was the chairman of the association of German, Austrian and Swiss crime writers "Das Syndikat" between 2001 and 2005.
Prizes
Incited: ›Marlowe‹-award, Raymond-Chandler-Society in Ulm 1998
Nominated for the ›Glauser‹-award
The Twin Trap: ›Glauser‹-award 2001 for the best German crime novel written in 2000
and several >Glauser< nominations for short stories
Writer in residence of the departement Gironde (Bordeaux) in Jan. 2008
Bibliography
Annas Erbe - Anna's legacy, 1995
Bittere Delikatessen - Bitter Delicacies, 1996
Aufgeputscht - Incited, 1997
Finstere Seelen - Gloomy Souls, 1999
Die Zwillingsfalle - The Twin Trap, 2000
Ausgezählt - Paid Out, 2002
Purpurland - Purpleland, 2003
617 Grad Celsius - 617 Degrees Celsius, 2005
Der Absprung, 2006
Königsallee, 2007
Sprengkraft - Explosive Force, 2009
Sales to Foreign Countries
Bittere Delikatessen: Czech Republic (Oddych 2001)
Aufgeputscht: Czech Republic (Oddych 2001), The Netherlands (De Rode Kamer 2009)
Finstere Seelen: Czech Republic (Oddych 2001)
Die Zwillingsfalle: France (Gallimard 2003), The Netherlands (De Rode Kamer 2008)
Aufgeputscht: The Netherlands (De Rode Kamer, coming soon)
Foreign rights
To get information concerning foreign rights pleaese contact Grafit.
NEW: "Sprengkraft"
(Grafit 2009, 410 pages)
"Horst Eckert is the most important writer of hard-boiled crime fiction in Germany."
(Ulrich Noller, WDR)
"He is one of the leading men in the genre in Germany and can hold his own against the best that any other nation in the world can throw at him." (William Adamson, Raymond-Chandler-Society)
