Inspector Hunkeler #02: Silver Pebbles

Inspector Hunkeler #02: Silver Pebbles
Hansjoerg Schneider
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 234pg
13 Jan 2022 UK
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9781913394622
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A Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the German police. The courier manages to flush the stones away in the station WC. Erdogan, a young Turkish sewage worker, finds the diamonds in the pipes under the station. To him they mean wealth and the small hotel he always wanted to buy near his hometown. To his older Swiss girl-friend Erika, the stones signify the end of their life together. She knows that Erdogan has a wife and children in Turkey. For the courier, finding the stones is a matter of life and death. His employers are on their way to ' tidy thing up' . For Hunkeler the stones are the only way to get to the people behind the drug trade. They turn out to include not only the bottom feeding drug gangs, but bankers and politicians very high up the Basel food chain.

#01: Basel Killings, The
#02: Silver Pebbles

"He' s an incurable pessimist with a big heart. Hunkeler has become a cult figure. He walks through life with great appetite and thirst. " Kulturtipp, Zurich "This silver pebble is in truth a literary gem. "Die Presse, Vienna "Schneider' s crime novels are addictive. As soon as one murder is seemingly solved, you are yearning for a new scoundrel. An obvious sign of addiction! Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich "Schneider has created a wonderful protagonist: gnarly, edgy and sympathetic. " Hamburger Abendblatt "Not a word too many, but also not a word too few". Rheinische Post
Hansjoerg Schneider (born 1938) lives in Basel and began his professional career as a journalist and essayist. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed plays and of the bestselling Hunkeler crime series, now with ten titles published. "The Basel Killings" was awarded The Friedrich Glauser Prize, Germany' s most prestigious crime fiction prize.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781913394622
Published: 13 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bitter Lemon Press
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 234

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