The events of Lena Etlang’s novel unfold on the Italian coast, in the “Briatico” hotel—a pristine white building standing atop a hill, a family estate surrounded by vineyards. Circumstances bring together characters connected by invisible threads, among them the main hero Marcus—a writer who has lost the ability to write—an art student who lost a brother, an heir who has been deprived of the estate, a police commissioner investigating strange deaths…
The detective plot typical of Etlang’s prose is woven with events that occurred in different years, dramatic coincidences, and new meanings. The content of this layered, polyphonic novel goes far deeper than searching for an answer to the question “Who is the murderer?”—though the listener won’t be able to guess it until the very end.