Death in Summer
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Publisher Description
The chilling first novel in the international bestselling Inspector Eschenbach series.
On a blazing hot day in the heart of summer, a renowned banker is shot dead on the golf course. There are no witnesses, and no obvious suspects.
When Inspector Eschenbach is assigned to the case, he knows that someone must be hiding something.
And as he delves deeper into the victim's life, he starts to uncover a past darker than any he could have imagined, and secrets that spread wider than he could possibly believe.
Secrets that those involved will do anything to keep hidden . . .
Someone, somewhere knows the truth.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Swiss author Theurillat makes his English-language debut with this polished novel, the welcome first in his Inspector Eschenbach series. When middle-aged banker Philipp Bettlach is shot dead at the 15th hole of a swanky Zurich golf course, Eschenbach, the experienced, unconventional, and intuitive chief of Zurich's CID, investigates. Assisted by his trainee from the police academy, Claudio Jagmetti, he begins stripping layer after layer from a case that eventually reveals the banker's shady side. A related murder in Basel raises the ante. Eschenbach's disdain for bureaucracy and his tendency to concentrate on only one thing at a time play off effectively against Jagmetti's youthful hero worship of him, and the investigation is occasionally leavened by the absurdity of Jagmetti's falling hard for the victim's pretty young girlfriend, who's a prime suspect in the homicide. Wry humor provides some relief from the grimness of the crimes at the heart of the case. Those fond of sophisticated European police procedurals will enjoy this and look forward to Eschenbach's next outing.
