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The Sweetness of Life

✍ Scribed by Hochgatterer, Paulus; Bulloch, Jamie

Book ID: 108644464
Publisher: Quercus
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 296 KB
Series: Kovacs & Horn 1
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781623653064

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

It is Christmas in the alpine town of Furth am See and a six-year-old girl is playing ludo with her grandfather. The doorbell rings, and the old man gets up. The next time the girl sees her grandfather, he is lying by the barn, his skull broken; his face a red pulp against the white snow. From that time on, she does not speak a single word.

Raffael Horn, the psychiatrist engaged to treat the silent child, reluctantly becomes involved in solving the murder along with Detective Superintendent Ludwig Kovacs. Their parallel researches sweep through the town: a young mother who believes her new-born child is the devil; a Benedictine monk who uses his iPod to drown the voices in his head; a high-spending teenager who tortures cats. The psychological profile of this claustrophobic, winter-held town is not reassuring -- which, if any, of its inhabitants was the brutal night-time slayer of the suffering girl's grandfather?

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