The German Book Office in New York City has chosen The Trap by Melanie Raabe, translated by Imogen Taylor (Grand Central, $26, 9781455592920), as its July Pick of the Month. 
The GBO described the book this way: "Successful novelist Linda Conrads has not left her house for more than a decade. She is haunted by the past: twelve years ago, she found her younger sister stabbed to death, lying in a pool of blood. The murder case was never solved. Traumatized, Linda seals herself off from society; the only means left to communicate to the outside world is her writing. When she recognizes her sister's murderer on TV--it is a renowned journalist--she sets an irresistible 'literary' trap: she writes a novel about her sister's death and invites him home for an exclusive interview."
Melanie Raabe, born in 1981, studied media and literature before becoming a magazine editor, freelance journalist, writer and stage actor. The Trap is her debut novel.
Imogen Taylor works in Berlin as a freelance translator and academic. Her translation of Momente der Klarheit by Jackie Thomae received the 2016 Goethe-Institut Award for New Translations.
