Der Monat vor dem Mord

No one suspects anything about Horstmann's dreams. To his boss, he is the highly qualified chemist who can only think in formulas. To his colleagues, especially Ocker, he is the nice, slightly absent-minded dreamer. His dreams? He needs money to realize them. A lot of money. Therefore, a new research project comes at just the right time. The task is to develop a remedy against a devastating pine pest. Horstmann wants to find this remedy faster than his colleagues, faster than the competition. Cautiously and cleverly, he gets to work, aiming to bring himself one step closer to his goal. A goal that he cannot achieve without violence. A goal that lies a month ahead of him. Germany's most-read crime author has captured and dissected the spirit of the 1970s in his serialized novel in "stern.".