Carlo Schäfer

Carlo Shepherd (actually Karl Christoph Schäfer) ( born January 2, 1964 in Heidelberg ) is a German author of detective novels.

Life

Carlo Shepherd grew up as the youngest of three children in Pforzheim, his father was a Protestant pastor. After graduation Schäfer studied in Heidelberg first German at the University, but soon moved to the College of Education. After graduation, he worked for ten years as a secondary school teacher in Mannheim. Since 2003, Schäfer is a lecturer at the University of Education in Heidelberg (Institute for German Language and Literature and its didactics).

Shepherd has also performed as a musician and comedian. Nationally known he was, however, from 2002 as a crime writer.

His protagonist, the first Chief Commissioner Theuermann, is an equally brooding as disillusioned mid - fifties who has now achieved with its fluctuating between apathy and over-motivation teammates Haffner, Leidig, Stern and mustard five literary documented cases.

His novels are characterized by a differentiated, sometimes experimental language. They also live by a precisely observed Palatine local color, the descriptions of the atmosphere at venues in Heidelberg and Mannheim.

Works

• In the false light in 2002
• The Celtic Circle 2003
• The sacrificial lamb in 2004
• Silverback 2006
• Tail light 2007 ( The last volume of the series )

Not playing in Heidelberg:

• Children and wolves 2007
• Shadows (Youth Crime ) 2010
• Suspicions (second band the youth series ) 2010
• The deaths of three men (E -Book) 2013