Arno Bussi’s second case is a real alternating hot-and-cold bath: In the middle of the heat wave of the century, he’s expected to get to the bottom of a homicide case that happened five years ago on the idyllic Tyrolean Lake Larch.
At the time, the lake innkeeper drowned after being stunned and thrown into the water. The police groped in the dark. Now Interior Minister Qualtinger sends his “special friend,” Inspector Arno Bussi, to Tyrol. Bussi soon suspects that this cold case can’t be the real reason he’s been sent back to his old home region. There are plans for a politically controversial chalet village to be built around Lake Larch, rousing the lake from its long touristic sleep.
When another inhabitant dies a violent death, the cold case turns into a red-hot one. In order to find the murderer, Bussi will have to solve the old mystery of Lake Larch first.
