Summer solstice
The shortest night of the year might be the last
The queen of Czech crime fiction, Michaela Klevisová, delivers a thrilling detective case, this time investigated not by Josef Bergman, but by Inspector Tereza Fabiánová. However, readers can still look forward to more of his stories.
Kamila and Filip find a new home in a remote South Bohemian village, where they want to live closer to nature. But the young couple's idyllic life is short-lived. An arsonist is terrorising the area, and after the summer solstice celebration, a murder takes place. Is the tragic death connected to a misfortune that occurred many years ago in this place shrouded in legends of mysterious rituals? Does the old cottage, once belonging to Kamila's relatives, hold the answers to questions the locals are too afraid to ask out loud? As Inspector Tereza Fabiánová from Jindřichův Hradec begins to unravel the tangled case, old grievances start to surface.
Michaela Klevisová
Born in Prague in 1976. She studied journalism at Charles University and has worked in the field since 1997. Her greatest hobby is travelling. She particularly enjoys visiting Nordic countries. Since childhood, she has been captivated by the world of horse racing, a passion she maintains to this day. For her debut, the detective novel Kroky vraha (Steps of a Murderer), she received the Jiří Marek Award for the best detective book of the year from the Czech branch of the Association of Crime Writers (AIEP). She repeated this success with her novel Dům na samotě (A House in the Middle of Nowhere) (2011). Both books are part of the popular crime series featuring investigator Josef Bergman. A departure from the detective genre is her novel about a crime in the Šumava foothills, Prokletý kraj (The Cursed Land) (2021). Klevisová is also the author of three collections of short stories about people and their cats.
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