One early September, a young man known only as F. arrives by train in Hamburg, Germany. Impeccable in manners and appearance, F. soon secures a job, an apartment, a girlfriend, and an environment in which his soul feels at peace. At night, however, he is plagued by visions of violence and cruelty. In time it becomes clear that F. has a past he would gladly leave behind. A cast of characters – most of them women – cannot help but wonder about this handsome foreigner, whose charisma and fluent German are more than a little suspicious.
Exhausted and already considering a career change, New York banker David Martinez is surprised when his usually draconian boss offers him a month's leave at a Swiss resort. While he absolutely needs some time off, David has some reservations about this obligatory vacation – especially as the last banker to receive "The Vitznau Bonus" never returned. In fact, the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Barnaby McCaskill five years earlier seems to follow David everywhere.
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Eben is an idealistic student from Kansas; Bill, an American professor with a checkered past; Barbara, a German police officer on an assignment below her rank. All three of their narratives intertwine in the German university town of Freiburg, near the legendary Black Forest, where the sudden disappearance of a local woman suggests malefactors are afoot. Inspired by the works of Patricia Highsmith and the paintings of Léon Spilliaert, The Black Forest unfurls a series of riddles and secrets as shadowy as the characters who investigate them.
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Thomas and Angelo were once in love with the same woman – a woman who perished ten years ago under mysterious circumstances. Having never gotten over their shared loss, the former classmates diverge on their paths: Thomas, the idle millionaire who rarely leaves his luxury apartment; Angelo, the struggling attorney whose mental equilibrium keeps teetering. But when Angelo seemingly encounters the deceased Ella Kessel on a business trip to Italy, Thomas turns to his long-suffering confidante to heal the wounds of the past. Angelo, however, takes a different tack and consults a “biographer of the vanished" -- not knowing the true abilities of his hireling.
