Title: Crime set in superb landscape
Product review: This little thriller is set in one of the most beautiful, but least known places of Austria, the Weinviertel. Polt, a police officer in a very small village where people know each other, is forced to investigate the cause of death of a vineyard- owner. He died in his cellar (the typical lower Austrian wine- cellars built into the Loess) of bad gases due to fermentation. Strange thing is: There is (and was)no wine fermenting in his cellar, so Polt has to search where that gas came from and if there was eventually a murder taking place. Komarek, also author of landscape descriptions, marries his experience in that matter with a crime story and a lot of interesting people, but sometimes is a little bit on the clichee-side. A good summer read and remember to buy Austrian wine for that occasion: You'll get to urge for it, when you read this book.
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