The dragon sleeps
Some secrets are best left forgotten
The two-time winner of the Jiří Marek Award for the best detective novel returns to the scene with the character of criminologist Josef Bergman. In her seventh novel featuring the popular hero, Michaela Klevisová takes readers to Southern Bohemia, to places that are only seemingly peaceful. But beneath the surface, a danger lurks that is best left undisturbed…
Fourteen years ago, in a remote South Bohemian village, something happened that Eliška's mother never wanted to talk about again. Now an adult, Eliška returns to understand the events of the past. But after her arrival, a young woman disappears and another is murdered. The connection of the crime to an old unsolved case eventually brings Josef Bergman to the scene. During his search for the murderer, the Prague criminologist discovers that the locals are hiding a dark past from him, as well as their own skeletons in the closet.
Michaela Klevisová
She was 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 most enjoys visiting Nordic countries. As a child, she fell in love with the world of horse racing, which she remains intensely interested in to this day. For her debut, a novel with a detective plot titled *Kroky vraha* (Steps of a Murderer), she received the Jiří Marek Award for the best detective book of the year from the Czech section of the Association of Crime Writers (AIEP). She repeated the same success with her novel *Dům na samotě* (The 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 the crime novel set in the Šumava foothills, *Prokletý kraj* (Cursed Land) (2021). Klevisová is also the author of three short story collections about people and their cats.
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