Freunderlwirtschaft

It's Commissioner Alma Oberkofler's first week in Vienna, and already she has a dead politician on her hands. Max Langwieser, young, conservative, ambitious, a minister and the best friend of the chancellor, has hit his head on his designer glass table. Accidental death or stylish murder? The case is causing quite a stir even in scandal-prone Austria. And the only lead, his fiancée Jessica, is nowhere to be found.

Jessica knows only one thing: she has to get away! How her life could have taken such a dramatic turn, she doesn't know. Nor does she understand why, in her panic, she took Max's laptop. Fortunately, she has watched enough crime shows to know how to lay low for a while. Maybe she'll manage to get out of this alive after all.

Petra Hartlieb paints a portrait of a group of young politicians in tailored suits who believe themselves to be invincible—until one of them is brought down.