MIRKO BEETSCHEN
Bel Veder
Trapped in the mountains
Press reviews
No bedtime story“(…) Mirko Beetschen proves to be a talented narrator who knows how to capture moods accurately and make atmospheres come alive almost physically in his dense language.”
Der Bund, 15.10.2018 |
Nightmare hotel Mirko Beetschen builds up the tension very skilfully and weaves in new, surprising plotlines (…). And of course the story is so gripping and creepy that you can hardly put the book down.”
Berner Zeitung / 08.10.2018 |
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The gothic hotel in the Bernese Oberland“With his second novel Mirko Beetschen (…) has a go at the venerable genre of the gothic story. And he does that really well.”
20 Minuten, 03.11.2018 |
Readings
WITH MIRKO BEETSCHEN
JANUARY 15 2019, 20h00 | ONO BERN
FEBRUARY 13 2019, 19h30 | DORFBIBLIOTHEK REICHENAU
MARCH 2 2019 | LITERAARE, THUNER LITERATURFESTIVAL
hardback with dust jacket, 13 x 21 cm, approx. 450 pages cover image: Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Eidgenössisches Archiv für Denkmalpflege (EAD): Archiv Photoglob-Wehrli CHF 32.–/EUR 29.– ISBN 978-3-7296-0997-6 ALSO AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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The author cleverly arranges the motifs and stylistic elements of a classic Gothic novel into an atmospherically dense, gripping thriller that is most certainly no bedtime story.
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Autumn 1946. The ancient owner of an abandoned grand hotel in the Bernese Alps disappears without a trace and is declared dead. His niece Eleanor arrives with her twin sister Violet from Baltimore to claim the inheritance and meets the members of her European family.
Until the opening of the will the small group settles within the empty rooms of the remote hotel palace and dreams of revived grandeur. Eleanor, however, feels increasingly threatened by the strange environment. The mountains as well as the abandoned halls and corridors of the hotel unsettle her. Is the old building really as empty as it seems. When a terrible accident happens and an unexpected snowstorm cuts the hotel off, the situation escalates. |
Mirko Beetschen
author, journalist & entrepreneur
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