No Compromise
The murder of an investigative journalist critical of Russia just before the European elections marks the beginning of a dramatic story that unfolds over the course of a week. From assassins, the trail leads steeply upwards to the highest political circles, but also to the student milieu. At the forefront is the ambitious Prague politician…
Číst dáleThe Dead Reach Out
It is the eve of the Prague Spring Music Festival and the whole city is alive with classical music. Prague is in bloom, the air is balmy, the lilacs are fragrant. But Inspector Marian Holina has no time for romance. Step by step, he tries to unravel the complex relationships among the musicians of the…
Číst dáleThe Zodiac Murders — Man at the Bottom
In a murderously hot June a man’s body is found at the bottom of a flooded sand quarry near Prague. The dead man is sitting in the car that he went down with. It is the police officer Zapletal. The Prague chief inspector, Marian Holina, takes over the case, assisted by a young, inexperienced, but clever…
Číst dáleMummy Mill
Culinary delicacies, eroticism, philosophical questions and strange murders – these are the ingredients, with which Petr Stančík blends a postmodern grotesque thriller. The fantasy novel takes place in the historical background of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. At that time a serial killer emerges in the historical center of Prague. Commissioner Leopold Durman is on…
Číst dáleThe Null-Horned Rhino
Inspector Libor Lavabo has to solve an unusual case: twelve she-rhinos from the Prague farm „Rhinnocent“ are dead. The animals died by fire, only small heaps of ashes are left over. The owner of „Rhinnocent“ wanted to put a stop to rhino poaching in Africa. That’s why he set up a farm in Prague, with the…
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