Constanze Scheib & Edith Kneifl lesen im Gasthaus Wiegele

The second case of the lady

A ruined reputation, a dead count, and plenty of punch pastries – the lady is investigating again.

Actually, the lady loves to dress up and mingle with the high society of Vienna. But since the scandalous article about her alleged connections to Communist circles, whispers are constantly behind her back. 1972 does not seem ready for a lady who enjoys listening to rock music, drinking whisky, and mingling with hippies. To lift Frau Ehrenstein’s spirits, her parents introduce her to the old Hungarian Countess Bárány. She has also been slandered by the tabloid Wiener Telegramm: she is accused of having killed her husband. Frau Ehrenstein immediately senses a new adventure. She quickly becomes friends with the resolute widow and decides to investigate to prove her innocence once and for all. Her secret confidante, the maid Marie, supports her in this. Their investigations lead the two not only to the upscale district of Döbling, to a legendary nightclub, and the Art History Museum, but also put them in deadly danger.

Constanze Scheib was born in Vienna in 1979, where she also grew up. You can tell, she says, by the coloring of her language, her "sometimes a bit rough friendliness," and her somewhat peculiar dark humor. After school, she underwent training as an actress and performed on various Austrian stages in the years that followed. Even during that time, she began writing short stories and plays – “for the amusement of my loved ones.” Since 2014, her stories have been published; since 2019, she has been a member of the "Murderous Sisters," a network to promote German-language crime literature by women. Constanze Scheib lives in Vienna with her husband and three children. "The Strangler of Hietzing" is her first novel.

Edith Kneifl with Dunes Fury:

Vacation with an adrenaline kick: Laura Mars takes on the Canary Island drug mafia!

Vibrant beach parties and the taste of danger.
Laura Mars travels to the Canary Islands – but instead of tossing on her bikini and relaxing among palm trees and wildly romantic gorges, she takes on the local drug mafia. She has followed her father’s cry for help: For years, Mischa Mars has been writing about the thriving drug smuggling on the Canaries. Now Laura’s stepmother Ramona has disappeared. Has she been kidnapped to extort his silence? On the island of La Gomera, Laura succumbs to a rainbow-colored old hippie beach party. But the next morning brings not a solution, but a corpse.

Laura Mars finds herself on an island-hopping adventure of the worst kind!
The tough Viennese woman begins to investigate on her own. Then her father gets an old friend involved: private detective Alfredo Diaz. At first, Laura does not quite trust him. Until the two begin to investigate together on Tenerife and Gran Canaria – and draw closer together amid black lava sand, rugged landscapes, and tempting island specialties ...

Edith Kneifl loves to whisk you away to sunny places, …
… which turn out to be chilling crime scenes. At her travel destinations, the taste of tropical fruits on the tongue always comes with a hint of horror. Wherever Kneifl takes her Laura Mars: she expertly combines vacation feeling with social criticism.

When Edith Kneifl received the Glauser Prize for the best German-language crime novel of the year in 1992, it was a double premiere: For the first time, a woman was awarded the prestigious prize, and for the first time, an Austrian crime novel was recognized. By now, Kneifl has long established herself as the Viennese crime queen. The novels of the 1954-born free writer who lives in Vienna have won numerous awards and have been translated into several languages. Many literary prizes and fellowships, including the ROMY in 2003 for the adaptation of the novel "End of the Show" and the honorary Glauser in 2018. 22 crime novels and about 50 short stories. Most recently, "Death is a Viennese" (2018) was published by Haymon, the second part of the series "The Three from the Naschmarkt Investigate," featuring a tough trio of female detectives with typical Viennese charm, following "You'd Rather Be Dead" (2016). With "Death Dance at the Spanish Riding School" (2019), Kneifl continues her popular series of historical crime novels set in Vienna at the turn of the century, following "Death Goes on the Ferris Wheel" (2012), "The Dead Woman of Schönbrunn" (2013), "Death Dance at St. Stephen's Cathedral" (2015), and "Death Loves Opera" (2017). With "Wave Grave" (2020), Edith Kneifl launched a vacation crime trilogy set in Greece, whose latest volume "Dunes Fury" (2021) continues on the Canary Islands.

Culprit scene "Village Pub." The Gasthaus Wiegele has been a multigenerational meeting point in the Villach upper villages for decades. The idyllic country inn with a long bar and large beer garden provides the perfect backdrop for a rural crime story. Here, farmers enjoy an after-work beer together with office workers and regulars over hearty snacks.

Cost
€ 24.00 crime reading / goulash and crime beer

Limited seating capacity

Tickets can be purchased by phone at +43 (0) 4242 3 999 3 or via email to
tourismus.stadt@visitvillach.info or online directly here.

Start
7:00 PM

Gasthaus Wiegele
Pogöriacher Straße 187
9500 Villach
tourismus.stadt@visitvillach.info
Tel. +43 (0) 4242 3 999 3

An event as part of the Crime Festival Carinthia 2022.