Summary
Oliver Bottini: By order of the father
A small place near Freiburg. An armed man suddenly appears in the garden of the Niemann family and claims that the house is his. As soon as the Niemanns informed the police, the stranger disappeared, but during the night he returned and issued a truly unusual ultimatum. In one of her most difficult cases, Freiburg police investigator Louise Boni is looking for a criminal who shows that he is ready for anything and follows a terrifying and difficult to predict plan. Trying to prevent the tragedy she foresees, with the ghosts of the past chasing her, Louise tries to track down the mysterious man and discover his motives. The road leads her to the Danube Swabians and then to the Bleiburg field, and when she arrives in Osijek via Zagreb, her fate takes another unexpected turn. By order of the father is an excellent combination of a crime story and a serious novel. His plot is carefully worked out, and the characters are extremely nuanced, so critics called the publication of Bottini's work a real event on the German scene of crime literature.
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