Leonie Swann is the nom de plume of a German crime writer. She studied philosophy, psychology and English literature in Munich, and now lives in Berlin

Berlin

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Work

Her first novel, Glennkill (published as Three Bags Full

Three Bags Full

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story is a work of detective fiction which features a flock of anthropomorphic Irish sheep out to solve the murder of their shepherd...

in English), sold over 100,000 copies in the first six months after publication. It has been translated to 32 languages.
Her second novel,Garou, a sequel to Glennkill, is not a detective novel but a thriller.

Awards

• 2006 - German Friedrich Glauser
  Friedrich Glauser
  Friedrich Glauser was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel Gourrama, written between 1928 and 1930, he treated his own experiences at the French Foreign Legion...
  
   crime writing prize, "debut" category.
• 2006 - The Glennkill Cover came first in the Bloody Cover 2006 Awards.
• 2007 - German Buchliebling for the CD.

Works

• Three Bags Full
  Three Bags Full
  Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story is a work of detective fiction which features a flock of anthropomorphic Irish sheep out to solve the murder of their shepherd...
  
  , Doubleday 2006, ISBN 0-385-60994-9
• Garou. Ein Schaf-Thriller. (original German Edition), 2010, English translation not available yet