“Anne Cathrine Bomann skillfully uses the codes of the thriller to construct a gripping story, effective and deliciously confronting. She proposes here a delicate reflection on love, the passing of time, and the limits of science. Brilliant.”
CHÂTELAINE

“This formidable thriller is endowed with undeniably literary traits: rich characters, multiple storylines, and an unexpected twist. The struggle between the researchers, who are trying to shed light on the side effects of Callocaïne, and the chemist at Danish Pharma, desperate to get the drug approved, is very compelling. The motives which drive the three women culminate in an explosive finale.”
L'ACTUALITÉ

“Blue Notes is not a crime novel, but an interpersonal and disturbingly realistic drama. The built-in suspense – abruptly completed chapters that act as cliffhangers, and cunning characters – serves primarily as the engine in a depiction of the people dealing with the pill and its far from reassuring side effects. Blue Notes is well-written, well-oiled and professionally well-founded. The novel's strength lies in the author's ability to portray the different expressions of grief through the individual characters and their life story. ”
JYLLANDS-POSTEN

“A captivating and compassionate novel about ethics, pills and humanity. ”
INFORMATION

“This is not an emotional novel that drifts into cliché. Bomann excels at using very clear, almost detached language. She tells her story from the different perspectives of her protagonists. In the second part, the novel picks up speed: It becomes almost as suspenseful as in a thriller.”
GOSLARSCHE ZEITUNG

“A clever scientific thriller! Psychologist and author Anne Cathrine Bomann has turned to an ethically challenging subject. The basic question of the novel is and ultimately remains whether love is worth its pains. A beautiful book – also visually, haptically and with all its side effects.”
WIENER ZEITUNG

“As with her debut novel Agatha, Anne Cathrine Bomann delves into the protagonists' inner lives sensitively and hauntingly at the same time. The result is a touching, thought-provoking and cleverly constructed book that, beyond the ethical questions, becomes very exciting toward the end.”
HEILBRONNER STIMME

“A timely and suspenseful novel that addresses corruption and addictions and raises ethical questions around coping with grief.”
DER EVANGELISCHE BUCHBERATER

“With Blue Notes, Anne Cathrine Bomann has presented a very readable but socio-critical and frighteningly timely novel.”
WDR 3 LESESTOFF

“I devoured this novel. Can we even perceive positive feelings as such when the negative ones are absent? Often I got mentally lost in the philosophical questions – so that the clever plot twist was doubly shocking.”
EMOTION

“Murder or mourning, loss or nostalgia: death wears many faces under the pen of those who choose it as their muse. The Danish author Anne Cathrine Bomann expertly explores the big question here in Blue Notes: can one treat grief like an illness?”
REVUE LE LIBRAIRIES

“Once you start, it's impossible to put down. Anne Cathrine Bomann's writing creates a bubble in which softness, anger, sadness and hope are mixed. Without forgetting a dose of suspense which could almost make us think of certain codes of the thriller. As chilling as it is touching.”
L'OMBRE DU VENT – LIBRAIRIE-CAFÉ, NIORT

“This novel can be read in one go, almost like a thriller, even if we quickly understand that resilience is of far more importance in these pages than the suspense which makes us turn the pages feverishly.”
AURÉLIE BARLET, LIBRAIRE

“Blue Notes is great. It offers us a profound reflection, a number of ethical and philosophical considerations, on the relationship that we have with death, grief, and the suffering of loss, in a novel with the pace and intensity of a thriller. Captivating, a true page-turner brimming with questions, dipped in psychological ink.”
FABIEN BERNIER – DECITRE, GRENOBLE

“An absolutely exciting novel, a real page-turner. Blue Notes attacks the [order] of compulsory well-being. Huge!”
LE TUMULTE, LIBRAIRIE À VOUVRAY

“A book of incredible intelligence. Anne Cathrine Bomann is a magician who pulls strings, attracting you like a spider in her web. An exciting book, fair, and magnificently translated. A real pleasure.”
CHRONIQUE LITTÉRAIRE D'YVON PARÉ

“A super well-written novel that deals with current and relevant themes about grief processing, diagnoses and medication. With short chapters that alternate between the book's main characters, the pages of the book almost turn themselves.”
LIBRARY BOOK REPORT

“Blue Notes is without a doubt a candidate to be one of the best books I have read this year!”
BAG OM BØGER

“A book that should be made into a film. A true page turner from the first page that I flew through in no time. Anne Cathrine Bomann has written a captivating and relevant thriller about grief, science and love, which lasts throughout.”
BOG.DAG.BOG

“Blue Notes is so much more than a suspense novel. It is a novel with nuanced and believable characters, and one senses, especially through them, that the author is a psychologist and therefore has great insight into the human psyche.”
SIDSES BOGREOL

“Truly a brilliant look at how loss affects people and different ways people learn to cope and live after loss. I have to say that the twist … actually took my breath away.” ★★★★★
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