The Graz author and journalist Robert Preis has sent his inspector Armin Trost out again. This time the headstrong and anything but easy-care investigator investigates some of the murder cases that take place around the expansion of a motorway. But old grave fields, Graz hospitals and museums are also the setting for the novel, which is already the seventh in the Styrian series and, as an exception, will be launched on the market in spring.
“For this book, I put a fascinating legend into a contemporary plot and was able to live out my soft spot for archeology and history,” said Robert Preis in an interview with APA. “I did research in Noreia, marched through the forests in which the historical battle between Romans and Germanic tribes is said to have taken place and I expanded my collection of legends,” said Price of his research, which he called “a change in this dreary one.” Corona year “felt.
In the new crime thriller, investigator Armin Trost not only has to deal with ancient burial grounds, but also with an eerie legend. As always, the details are pretty scary, the look into the abyss of any kind is not for the faint-hearted reader. Anyone who loves crime thrillers with local flavor and has nothing against often slightly abnormal scenes, on the other hand, has come to the right place.
“At first I found it extremely difficult to write, the first lockdown shocked me, like so many others. All of my dark story ideas were suddenly overwhelmed by reality,” said the author. “That took a few weeks, but then the writing flow was back. In the end it was an extremely productive year: In this strange isolation time, I was not only able to finish the seventh consolation thriller, it also resulted in a youth thriller and a grotesque dystopia in eight parts, “said Preis.
(SERVICE – “The Fall of the King of Graz” by Robert Preis. Published by Emons-Verlag, 294 pages, EUR 13.40.)
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