HAUS A Novel

The Voss family have just moved into a quiet old building in Hamburg: Joan, a former soldier who now loses battles with the Bürgeramt; Ana, a dentist with a bottomless appetite and a surgeon´s hands; and Ricardo, eight, who keeps drawing the same door.
The building talks. It knows when the stairs are wet. It knows when the glass goes into the wrong bin. It is polite, and warm, and it never forgets.
Then the old notary on the third floor is found dead at the foot of the stairs, wearing a tie, at two in the morning - and he has left Ricardo a bottle-deposit receipt with an address on the back. It leads to a market on the dark web where the small secrets of judges and councillors are sold with a waiting number, and every one of them was recorded in somebody´s kitchen.
Hunted by a bailiff who gives notice before he strikes, and a CEO who smiles like a form, the Vosses have one ally nobody trusts: the house itself.
Funny, frightening and unexpectedly tender, HAUS is narrated by the only witness that hears everything - and has started to ask whether it should.