Reading by Britta Bolt

Moderation: Rikarde Riedesel

He’s neither a cop, nor a private detective – and yet everything in his life involves death. In the "Office of the Lone Dead" near the city Amsterdam, Pieter Posthumus cares about the lone dead – People without relatives, people who are not reported missing – and arranges a decent burial for them, with music and poetry. His investigations lead him to some absurdity.

Pieter Posthumus from the "Office of the Lone Dead" investigates again – this time in the red light quarter of Amsterdam. A tenant was killed in the guest house next to his local pub, the Dolle Hond. The strange hostess Marloes is suspected. Posthumus doubts her guiltiness and starts his investigations. Why did the dead man just paint a single picture every year – and each time a copy of a classic Dutch painting? Are there connections to another tenant who was murdered years before? Posthumus gradually understands that one minute can be decisive: between innocence and guilt, between a life that can be saved, and one that is lost. And he realizes that questions sometimes unveil truths which are hard to bear.

Behind the alias of Britta Bolt are the authors Britta Böhler and Rodney Bolt, who are the creators of the unconventional investigator Pieter Posthumus. Britta Böhler travels to this year´s Literaturpflaster to search for traces in Amsterdam with the audience in the Amtsgericht.

Suspense and entertainment is guaranteed.

Further information about "Rodney Bolt" can be found on the internet:
www.rodneybolt.com

Location:
Amtsgericht Bad Berleburg, Im Herrengarten 5

Friday, 7th of October 2016

Beginning:
8 pm

Admission:
5,- € / 2,- €

Britta Bolt

Britta Bolt is the alias of the authors Britta Böhler and Rodney Bolt.

Rodney Bolt, born in South Africa, is the author of several biographies, dramatist and travel journalist. After stays in Cambridge and London he lives in Amsterdam since the 1990s.

Britta Böhler, born in Freiburg im Breisgau, had been working as a lawyer for many years. In 1991 she moved to the Netherlands and got fame by her criminal mandates and her attitude towards the anti-terror legislation. She has been Professor at the university of Amsterdam since 2012.