Hartes Pflaster

Paris in the spring of 1980, thousands of Turkish immigrants start a strike and fight for their legalization. As sans-papiers, they work in the backyards of the city in numerous tailoring workshops under miserable conditions for the glamour of the fashion industry. The body of a young Thai prostitute is discovered in a studio. Inspector Daquin takes up the investigation. The trail leads into the milieu of the Turkish drug mafia - and into the heart of Parisian high society. When Dominique Manotti celebrated her literary debut in 1994 with Hartes Pfl aster (French: Sombre Sentier), her book was immediately awarded the Prix Sang dencre for the best French crime novel. Ten years later we published the work in German translation to make this "bravura piece of modern political literature" accessible on the right bank of the Rhine. In the meantime.