Flushed out death

When Prokop finds the body of his older sister in the river, showing signs of violence, life in Mokropes, a small fishing village, is suddenly turned upside down. The adolescent young man decides to seek a blood feud, and the hunt for the killer leads him to nearby Prague, which, at the end of Charles IV's reign, is a bustling and burgeoning metropolis full of unprecedented buildings, but also dark, unwelcoming corners. Events take a turn when the eccentric St. George's canon, Štěpán, arrives in Mokropes, tasked with investigating the murder…