My Inner Child Wants to Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse: suspense at every turn of the page – book review –
‘It’s never too late to have an unhappy childhood. It is also never too late to have a happy childhood.’
Lawyer turned murderer Björn Diemel is seeking his inner peace after some unfortunate (and some perhaps more fortunate!) killings so when his wise mindfulness coach points him in the direction of his ‘inner child,’ it might just be the solution to his problems.
Enjoy a truly ‘arresting’ start to your new year of reading by indulging in the sheer comic joy of My Inner Child Wants to Murder Mindfully, the hilarious follow-up to German lawyer and now novelist Karsten Dusse’s dark and sublimely entertaining crime debut, Murder Mindfully, which sold over two-and-a-half million copies and became a major Netflix series.
In a translation from the German by Florian Duijsens, which expertly picks up Dusse’s complex nuances and black humour, this new satirical gem once again achieves what might seem to be the impossible... the melding of a riotous killing romp with a perfectly authentic guide to the calming power of mindfulness.
Dusse has been writing for television formats for a number of years, and has won the German Television Award and the German Comedy Prize several times, and he has a ball with these murderously clever plots, using his legal background and eye for visual drama to dish up one restless man’s wicked and wellness-inspired dance of death.
There will be no more corpses… well, that’s the plan. With the help of his therapist, Joschka Breitner, lawyer Björn Diemel has mastered the principles of mindfulness and used them to improve his life. He quit his stressful job, started his own practice and really wants to stop murdering people. To this end, Björn now spends more time with his precious young daughter Emily and argues less – and usually more lovingly – with his estranged wife Katherina.