The richly atmospheric new Strafford and Quirke murder mystery, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow.<br />
He had seen drowned people.<br />
A sight not to be forgotten. 1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn't approach, but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person's case, as a husband claims his wife may have thrown herself into the sea. Called in from Dublin to investigate is Detective Inspector Strafford, who soon turns to his old ally - the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke - a man he is linked to in increasingly complicated ways.
Aesops Fabeln sind in aller Welt bekannt. Dimiter Inkiow - einem Kenner klassischer Sagen und Mythen - gelingt es auf einmalige Weise, die Fabeln ansprechend und pointiert nachzuerzählen.
Er bietet dem Leser, ob jung oder alt, einen wahren Schatz an Geschichten und Weisheiten.