Summer solstice
The shortest night of the year might be the last
The queen of Czech crime fiction, Michaela Klevisová, brings a thrilling detective case, this time investigated not by Josef Bergman, but by Detective Inspector Tereza Fabiánová. However, readers can look forward to more of his stories in the future.
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 idyll is short-lived. An arsonist is on the loose in the area, and a murder occurs after the summer solstice celebration. Is the tragic death connected to a misfortune that happened many years ago in a place steeped in legends of mysterious rituals? Does the old cottage belonging to Kamila's relatives hold the answers to questions the local people are afraid to ask out loud? When Jindřichův Hradec investigator Tereza Fabiánová begins to unravel the tangled case, old grievances come to the surface.
Michaela Klevisová
Born in 1976 in Prague. 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. She fell in love with the world of horse racing in childhood and remains an avid enthusiast to this day. For her debut, the detective novel Kroky vraha (The Killer's Steps), she received the Jiří Marek Award for the best detective book of the year from the Czech section of the International Association of Crime Writers (AIEP). She repeated the same 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 the novel about a crime in the Šumava foothills, Prokletý kraj (The Cursed Land) (2021). Klevisová is also the author of three short story collections about people and their cats.
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