Murder Mindfully, Karsten Dusse

First few chapters - what on earth am I doing reading this.

Next few chapters - okay I'm getting this, this is .... different.

Next few chapters - what do you mean you want something ... can't you see I'm busy.

Why do I keep hearing Henning Wehn's voice in my head?

All of the book, this is making me laugh. A lot. I probably shouldn't be - I mean there are people locked in boots, there is a chipper on the side of a lake, there's guns and cars going boom, and a law firm full of people who survive (which doesn't seem right).

Calm your mind. Be here, now. Take a breath. And kill.

I didn't kill anyone until I was forty-two. That's actually a little on the late side for my current professional environment. Admittedly, I did kill almost half a dozen in the week that followed.

Björn has been given an repair his work-life balance, or his wife Katharina will leave him - and take their daughter.

I'm not sure that practitioners and proponents of mindfulness had facilitating murder, and the take over of a major criminal enterprise in mind when they came up with the concept. Mind you, I don't know many criminal enterprises are all that terribly interested in legitimately running a kindergarten / child care centre either. Now that I think about it, I'm not at all sure that there are many drivers and support crew for a mobster who are studying Early Childhood Development (or whatever the degree was called - I was laughing / forgot to note it down...). But there you have it.

A most unusual novel, MURDER MINDFULLY tickled my particular sense of humour (and let's face it, that's so subjective I bet others are going to be profoundly irritated by the whole thing). It's restrained, tongue in cheek slapstick, with some scenes straight out of a horror movie (I mean who chops up a body and puts it through a chipper, scattering it directly into a lake...), and some scenes out of a surreal comedy. Men locked in car boots gets a good running, as does the use of locked rooms, and hand grenades. There are hand grenades everywhere.

Then I noticed there's a Netflix series. So we watched that after I'd finished the novel. My partner also laughed a lot. It's pretty good, they haven't made a complete hash of the storyline, and they kept some of the really funny bits in (we watched it "dubbed" - so I'm not sure if it works with subtitles). 

But the whole thing was great fun, and it looks there's a series - hopefully they'll get with the program and get them translated.