Mord und Totschlag statt Dolce Vita
CLARA BERNARDI
REQUIEM AM COMER SEE. EIN FALL FÜR GIULIA CESARE/ REQUIEM ON LAKE COMO. A CASE FOR GIULIA CESARE
A Crime Novel, ca. 300 pages
Spring 2019
A Murdered Diva Instead of Dolce Vita
Lake Como.
Crystal clear water, its shores lined with cypresses, olive and fig trees, surrounded by a fantastic mountain panorama. A dream location in Northern Italy.
It makes you think of summer holidays, grand mansions, picturesque villages, Verdi and dolce vita. But in the small village of Abbadia Lariana the Mediterranean idyll is roughly disturbed. Angelika Krüger, an eccentric German opera singer, is found murdered in the priest’s garden. But the aging diva had only come to the land of wine and song in search of love and romance.
Inspector Giulia Cesare, 50, attractive, down to earth and known for her willingness to help, is in charge of this case. Together with her friend Brutus, a lovable, shy postman, she investigates this tricky murder case. The two of them quickly get involved with a whole range of suspects. It seems that Angelika Krüger may have gone a little bit too far in her search for love and engaged in affairs with a number of village men. The wives they cheated on would have just as strong a motive for murder as the husbands the diva discarded…
REQUIEM AM COMER SEE. EIN FALL FÜR GIULIA CESARE/ REQUIEM ON LAKE COMO. A CASE FOR GIULIA CESARE
A Crime Novel, ca. 300 pages
Spring 2019
A Murdered Diva Instead of Dolce Vita
Lake Como.
Crystal clear water, its shores lined with cypresses, olive and fig trees, surrounded by a fantastic mountain panorama. A dream location in Northern Italy.
It makes you think of summer holidays, grand mansions, picturesque villages, Verdi and dolce vita. But in the small village of Abbadia Lariana the Mediterranean idyll is roughly disturbed. Angelika Krüger, an eccentric German opera singer, is found murdered in the priest’s garden. But the aging diva had only come to the land of wine and song in search of love and romance.
Inspector Giulia Cesare, 50, attractive, down to earth and known for her willingness to help, is in charge of this case. Together with her friend Brutus, a lovable, shy postman, she investigates this tricky murder case. The two of them quickly get involved with a whole range of suspects. It seems that Angelika Krüger may have gone a little bit too far in her search for love and engaged in affairs with a number of village men. The wives they cheated on would have just as strong a motive for murder as the husbands the diva discarded…
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Clara Bernardi
Clara Bernardi is the pen name of the author Julia Bruns who has already published four crime novels about Thuringia with Emons. Julia Bruns studied...
Clara Bernardi is the pen name of the author Julia Bruns who has already published four crime novels about Thuringia with Emons. Julia Bruns studied politics, sociology and psychology. After obtaining her PhD, she worked for many years as a speech writer and in PR. The author lives in county Sömmerda with her family.