For the fourth time, ›Mord am Hellweg‹, the biggest European festival for crime fiction, get-together of the world-wide crème de la crème of crime fiction authors, has taken place in autumn 2008 in Westphalia. In preparation of the event, quite a few authors took a good look around the famous old trade route. Read, what came to British author Peter James’ mind about Hagen, what his compatriot Michael Morley thinks about Unna and Icelandic Yrsa Sigurdardottir about Oelde. Also en route were: Leo P. Ard, Christa Bernuth, Jürgen Ehlers, Sebastian Fitzek, Frank Göhre, Henrike Heiland, Norbert Horst, Robert Hültner, Bernhard Jaumann, Jörg Juretzka, Wolfgang Kaes, Jürgen Kehrer, Ralf Kramp, Tatjana Kruse, Sandra Lüpkes, Sabina Naber, Theo Pointner, Niklaus Schmid, Maj Sjöwall & Jürgen Alberts, Michael Theurillat, and Raimon Weber.