My Inner Child Wants to Kill

My Inner Child Wants to Kill continues Karsten Dusse's Mindful Murder series after Murder Mindfully. Bjorn Diemel is still trying to treat self-improvement as a practical tool, and the joke is still that his practical problems include organized crime, murder, and his own talent for calm self-justification.

Netflix's Murder Mindfully series is based on Dusse's crime books, and About Netflix has kept the show current with second-season production news. Publishers Weekly records the English Soho Crime edition of this sequel under ISBN 9781641298841.

Read it if the first book's tone worked for you. The source relationship here is franchise-based rather than a single-season one-to-one claim, so the best reader job is simple: use it to keep going with Bjorn before the show catches up.

Bjorn Diemel is the lawyer whose calm voice makes bad choices sound almost reasonable.

Katharina is still part of the family pressure Bjorn claims to be managing.

Emily remains the child he uses to frame his choices as parental care.

Bjorn's criminal network keeps turning wellness exercises into survival tactics.

No. 1 - Franchise route. It extends the same book series behind Netflix's Murder Mindfully.

No. 2 - Dark comic continuity. Bjorn's self-help logic remains the main engine.

No. 3 - English edition now available. Soho Crime gives English readers a current route into the sequel.

Read this if you are...

• Already interested in Netflix's Murder Mindfully.
• Looking for dark comic crime rather than detective realism.
• Curious about how the series develops after the first book.
• Comfortable with therapy language being used for immoral ends.

Skip it if you are...

• New to the series and unwilling to start with book one.
• Avoiding comic treatment of violence.
• Looking for sincere inner-child work.
• Wanting a clean moral hero.

• Start with Murder Mindfully if possible. This sequel assumes the pleasure of Bjorn's voice.
• Treat the title as a warning. The therapy terms are part of the comedy, not a promise of healing.
• Watch the justifications. Bjorn's calm explanations often reveal more than he intends.
• Keep the adaptation boundary clear. The guide is for the source series, not a claim about a specific Netflix episode.

• Karsten Dusse - Murder Mindfully. The necessary first stop.
• Melanie Raabe - The Trap. For another German thriller route.
• Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley. For crime filtered through self-invention.
• Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal. For method and control in a colder register.
• Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief. For a lighter criminal-intelligence lineage.

1. Does Bjorn change after the first book, or only refine his excuses?
2. How does the sequel use family language differently?
3. Where does the comedy feel sharpest?
4. Does the therapy vocabulary expose Bjorn or protect him?
5. How should a TV adaptation handle his inner narration?
6. What makes the series feel German rather than generic crime comedy?
7. Does the book need readers to like Bjorn?
8. How far can this premise stretch before it repeats itself?