Lake Zurich is Officer Rosa Zumbrano’s beat; as the first female officer in Zurich’s maritime police force and a former detective, Zumbrano enjoys the relative serenity of her new daily patrol. That is, until a body is recovered from the lake—and Zumbrano realizes she knows the man. Deep Dark Blue is the launch of Swiss author Seraina Kobler’s new crime fiction series, already a bestseller in Switzerland and hot off the presses in English translation. Kobler will be interviewed by Randal Brandt, curator of the California Detective Fiction Library at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation.
“A gripping crime novel that still makes a holiday in Zurich sound like fun.” —Martin Meyer, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
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-> Seraina Kobler, born in Locarno in 1982, studied linguistic and cultural studies before working as a journalist for publications including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Eventually setting up as a freelance author, in 2020 she published her debut novel, Regenschatten. Her first Zurich-based crime novel featuring officer Rosa Zambrano, Deep Dark Blue, spent months on the Swiss bestseller lists. Kobler lives with her family in Zurich.
-> Randal S. Brandt is a librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, where he catalogs rare books and is the curator of the Bancroft Library’s California Detective Fiction Collection.