Autumn Blood

After a failed relationship and being ousted from his position at the police in Dortmund by an ambitious young lawyer as his new boss, Paul Kendzierski arrives in the middle of the grape harvest as the new district police officer at the municipal administration in Nieder-Olm. The native of Sauerland, with a Polish grandmother, feels out of place everywhere: in his office just as much as in his "tiled" two-room apartment, as he calls it. It's no surprise, then, that he makes the brutal death of Polish seasonal worker Jozef at the Bach vineyard in Essenheim his personal case – which, by law, has nothing to do with him, as the Mainz criminal police are responsible. For them, it's a regrettable fermentation accident, which occasionally happens during cellar work. The Essenheim winemaker Andreas Wagner tells an extremely thrilling story in his first crime novel about a case that involves Paul.