Murder Mindfully
Paperback Published on: 02/01/2025
Price: £9.99
Bookseller Reviews
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Take A Breath, Pick Up This Book and Enjoy!!!
I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!
Murder Mindfully is a riot of dark humour, masterful storytelling and ingenious murder, which will have you in stiches one minute bef... READ MORE
Great Fun
4.5⭐️
Such a clever concept, this was so much fun to read.
The skilful humour and layers of plotting made this an enjoyable and engaging experience, it w... READ MORE
Synopsis
'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 ultimatum: repair his work-life balance, or his wife Katharina will leave him - and take their daughter.
He reluctantly starts a mindfulness class and to his surprise, it's a revelation. He becomes calmer, more focused, and he's starting to understand what's really important in life. So when his client and brutal crime boss Dragan Sergowicz tries to interfere with his precious family time, Björn remembers his new-found goal to find serenity - and kills him.
Now Björn can deepen his practice and seek inner peace - violently.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- ISBN: 9780571384044
- Number of pages: 416
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allExcellently plotted Crime Caper
Björn Diemel is a criminal defence lawyer with only one client, Dragan Sergowicz, leader of one of the two big gangs that run all the rackets in the city. ... READ MORE
A fun read
Murder Mindfully is already an international bestseller and a German series on Netflix, so I was excited to read the English translation out this year from... READ MORE
Murder mindfully
I really enjoyed this book! Mindfulness and gangsters shouldn't work but it really does! I thought this was a really funny dark comedy and some of the mind... READ MORE
Humorous and entertaining
Mindfulness is defined as the awareness of one’s internal state and surroundings. Not something that I’ve been able to come to terms with, until now! Bj... READ MORE
A great read, funny and a bit different
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book.
What a great book, a pleasure to read from start to finish. Bjorn is a great cha... READ MORE
Murderous and mindful
Thank you to NetGalley and Faber and Faber Ltd for this ARC.
Björn Diemel, 42, is a criminal lawyer with a wife, Katharina, and a daughter, Emily who is... READ MORE
Mindfulness, Murder AND it’s Amusing!
*4.5* stars
Calm your mind. Be here, now. Take a breath. And kill.
We’ve all heard of mindfulness, maybe even practice it, but who on earth would us... READ MORE
Brilliant!
It is not often I award five stars but I so thoroughly enjoyed this book and believe it warrants nothing less. Who would have thought that mindfulness coul... READ MORE
Gleeful self-help/crime mash-up
You know exactly what you’re getting with this book. Equally mindfulness cheerleader (full of mantras and advice) and murderer’s POV, this twists both genr... READ MORE
A good read!
I (mostly) really enjoyed this book, it kept me entertained. The only things that put me off were the mindfulness quotes at the beginning of each chapter ... READ MORE
What a fun and twisted read!
With thanks to the author, publishers Faber & Faber Ltd, and NetGalley for providing me with a DRC of this book in exchange for my honest review.
The th... READ MORE
Very funny and entertaining
Please read this, it is laugh out loud funny.
When Lawyer Bjorn is sent on a mindfulness course by his wife, he has no idea what direction it would send h... READ MORE
Brilliant
So, I chose this book on the fact that the plot sounded funny generally I hate mindfulness. I hate the way people go on about it and the way that it's hera... READ MORE
Dark humour
Sent on a mindfulness course by his wife, it has powerful repercussions.
Changing viewpoint allows for unconventional ideas and solutions to be used.
A l... READ MORE
Interesting and entertaining
I thought this was a very clever mix of mindfulness tips interwoven with a struggling lawyer’s descent into a life of crime by his use of those mindfulness... READ MORE
A refreshingly different thriller
Well, what a refreshingly different thriller. It is very dark but funny too. An organised crime gang's legal brief is getting a lot of grief from his wife.... READ MORE
Funny, witty and enlightening
A definite and hesitation-free 5 stars for this gem. Funny, witty and surprisingly also a successful advocate for mindfulness despite the protagonist's bon... READ MORE
3.5/5.
Björn, a stressed lawyer, finds himself facing an ultimatum from his wife, Katharina: restore his work-life balance, or risk losing her and their daughter.... READ MORE
Murder Mindfully - magical
Really great book - written from the first person point of view. Funny, clever and entertaining. I really loved this book; it was enthralling and I had no ... READ MORE
A new way of looking at work life balance...
It is certainly not usual to have a self-help therapy book merged with murder but this is exactly what Karsten Dusse has done. It is a witty, clever and in... READ MORE
Dark, offbeat and quirkily funny
I almost put Murder Mindfully down after the first couple of chapters, but I’m glad I didn’t. Karsten Dusse weaves a clever and unconventional plot that bl... READ MORE
Completely brilliant!
Goodness I loved this! Bjorn is a workaholic lawyer with a wife and young daughter. His marriage is rocky, so when his wife tells him to repair his work-li... READ MORE
Insightful and so much fun!
I must say, I think Björn Diemel really got his money's worth out of those therapy sessions on using mindfulness to better balance work/life balance and ma... READ MORE