Jan’s latest novel, to be released in 2022/2023

Settled between the worlds of Murakami and Kafka, DER NACHBAR is a mystery novel about true love and how to find it.

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Detective Lex Darker is given an unusual assignment: he is to penetrate actor and rake Paul Parasil to make corrections inside him that will prepare Parasil for true love. Being a gentleman, Darker decides to support his client, a mysterious veiled lady in any way he can.

But the closer he gets to the track of the womanizer, the more peculiar his mission becomes. When he finally finds notes that put Parasil in a completely different light, questions are piling up.

Is the actor really the lady killer everyone thinks he is? Or is it the circumstances of a fateful past that turned him into what he is today? What are his client's real intentions? And how exactly can you succeed in penetrating another person?

As things become more mysterious and his quest seems more hopeless than ever, Darker embarks on a dangerous game that blurs the lines between illusion and reality. Eventually the solution to the riddle seems to be hidden deep in the dreamland of souls.