Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames [Paperback]

Some towns change with the times while others seem to fall through the cracks, entering an oddly timeless domain. The latter is the case with Strathleven, in which the rituals and darkness of the past seem always to be glimmering just below the surface of a seemingly normal shell. Wonderfully controlled and with a very deft, beautifully done tone,?Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames?is the sort of thing that might happen if The Wicker Man?had been cross-pollinated with one of Friedrich D?rrenmatt's detective novels.Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses
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No contemporary writers work scares me more than Kiesbyes. Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames is gothic and whatever the opposite of pastoral is rendered in his signature spare, whittled-to-the-bone style.Jeff Parker, author of Where Bears Roam the Streets
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Kiesbye is the inventor of the modern German gothic novel.Elmar Krekeler, Die Welt
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In Strathleven, a village near L?beck, mysterious events occur. The newly arrived Benno and his family are faced with the corpse of an unknown woman, superstition, vicious sermons and isolation. A modern gothic novel: quirky, very readable and interesting from the first page to the last.Peter Peterknecht, Deutschlandradio Kultur
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Ancient pagan Germanic myths and customs pervade the history of Stratleven and its inhabitants. Nothing seems to follow the simple course of events, but old and savage rules; the only apparent escape is to commit new acts of violence.Magdalene Geisler, der Freitag
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Moving from Berlin to Strathleven, a picture-perfect village on the Baltic Coast, was supposed to be a new beginning for Benno, his wife Carolin, and their six-year-old son, Tim, who is suffering from a mysterious illness. However, shortly after arriving in the country, Benno finds the corpse of a young woman in the woods, and when no one in the village admits to having knolS'