Der Monat vor dem Mord

No one suspects anything about Horstmann's dreams. For his boss, he is the highly qualified chemist who can only think in formulas. To his colleagues, especially Ocker, he is the nice, always a little absent-minded stranger. His dreams? He needs money to realize them. A lot of money. So a new research contract comes in handy. The assignment is to develop a remedy against a devastating pine pest. Horstmann wants to find this remedy faster than his colleagues, faster than the competition. Prudently and ingeniously he sets to work, which should bring him one step closer to his goal. A goal he cannot reach without violence. A goal that lies a month away from him. Germany's most widely read crime novelist has captured the zeitgeist of the seventies in his serialized novel in the "stern" and dissects it with de.