Press review

"Horst Eckert is in Germany the most important exponent of the hard-boiled crime novel." (WDR)

"Nothing is what it seems to be. Eckert lets the reader take breath to take the breath at the next moment. He is close to his characters who step out of the pages with physical presence." (Bergsträßer Anzeiger)

"Eckert´s novels belong to the kind of books which you read in one go, gnawing your finger nails and wolfing down a whole case of chocolates." (Coolibri)

"Masterly Eckert escapes from the danger of shipwrecking on the surface and keeps his characters from the fate of becoming an inanimate cliché." (Kölner Illustrierte)

"Eckert destroys the nice world of TV-police-serials, but he builds up an own, fascinating universe. (...) The ´noir writing´ of Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler gets a new impulse. But Eckert´s universe is even darker." (Reutlinger General-Anzeiger)

"In the style of a James Ellroy." (Nordwest-Zeitung)

"He is addictive." (Wormser Zeitung)

"Social backgrounds and psychological involvements, messed-up courses of life, corruption, the dead bodies in the cellars of well-behaving bourgeoisie. Before the latter are dug out and the offenders are caught, you have to grope your way through a labyrinth of trails and suffer some high-voltage shocks." (Kult - Kultur am Niederrhein)

"Horst Eckert has a marvellous and perfect nose for creating suspense. He shifts the reader into a state of lasting tension and increasing excitement." (Südwest-Presse)

"Premier League of German-language thriller writers." (Lexikon der Kriminalliteratur) 

"He is addictive."
(Wormser Zeitung)