Barbara Wolf #2

The sun-drenched cover of this second *Barbara Wolf* album — subtitled "Wer ermordet Barbara Wolf?" — sets a deceptively breezy scene: a young man confidently at the helm of a sailboat shares the deck with a wind-haired blonde woman in a striped top, the stone ramparts of a coastal town visible across the glittering water behind them. Marivain's clean, expressive linework gives the image an easy charm that quietly belies the ominous question posed by the title. Maingoval and Marivain's 2013 Arboris release promises the kind of sun-and-suspense thriller that makes you want to keep reading long past the last page.