Anne Gold (1)

This is the second of the Kommissär Ferrari series and I liked it very much. After a partying night and a thick head Kommissär Ferrari is introduced to a woman who fears that her husband will commit suicide. Not quite believing her, he talks to her husband and gets the feeling that this man couldn't be suicidal.
The very next morning he is called to a death scene where he learns that the man he met the day before sprang from a roof. A media group is already there and had filmed the jump. show more Ferrari is suspicious and therefore he starts investigating the death and the victim's surrounding. He looks into this case from every angle and comes to the conclusion that this must be a murder but to proof it, is a very difficult task and needs exceptional investigation.
It was a very gripping reading and took me until the very end to see the outcome. show less

A new cosy mystery series which I'm draw in. It's Kommissär Frederico Ferrari's first case. Ferrari whom a lot of people still are thinking of a real Italian is by birth and heart a real Basler. He lives together with his ladyfriend and her daughter. In his first case he meets people from the Basler Daig which is the high society of Basel where nobody else can entre this special circle.
A husbund of such a lady who was an egocentric painter, a womanizer and addicted to drugs and alcohol was show more found murdred on a ferry boat. Ferrari has to solve this puzzle but it wasn't such an easy task because the prosecuting attorney is a close friend to the victime's wife and the suspects. Therefore he doesn't make it easy for Ferrari and Ferrari has to threaten him with suspension of the case due to prejudice.
It was a fast-paced enthralling reading. show less

Wie schon seine drei Vorgänger, ein einfach geschriebener Krimi. Er lebt mehr von den Anspielungen auf das Basler Leben und Basler-Persönlichkeiten, als von einer feinen Sprache, detailiert beschriebenen Figuren, oder einer spannenden Handlung.
So oder so werden Basler, resp. Heimweh-Basler diesen Krimi gerne lesen.

In Basel spielender Krimi. Story nicht schlecht. Aber Figuren und Geschichte zu wenig ausgearbeitet.