In Free Fall

“It is such a delight to watch Juli Zeh play her entire repertoire of literary skill… challenging the conventions of the classical detective story with subtle irony.”

—Die Zeit

“Juli Zeh uses the structure of the detective novel like a composer uses his music book. And into this book she writes, with remarkable consistency, her musical score… Here’s a piece of literature that takes the liberty to develop its very own rules, and to impose them upon an obsolete form, coming indeed very close to a musical work in its tenor and thematic variation… One might think that such perfection, such erudition must leave the reader untouched, bored even… but it does not. For that, Zeh’s labyrinth is built too clever…