Machste nix dran

Sometimes you really have no chance! Blue lights, a green police van, and pitch-black humor. The idea is brilliant, the plan perfect, everything runs like clockwork. And then? Something unexpected comes up and everything turns out completely different. You can't do anything about it. In twenty-two funny and thrilling short crime stories, the most bizarre twists trip up both the criminals and the investigators. The camping trip to Oberwesel turns into a turbulent fiasco, the beast in the boxwood defends itself more fiercely than expected, and the lucky number doesn't deliver what it promises. And the story with Mr. von Ribbeck and the pear tree also develops quite differently than planned. Things heat up when the double-headed club from Cloppenburg celebrates in Mallorca or when the water sprite lures on Norderney, when killers probe the depths of the Mediterranean off Kythera, and when the ascent to the Kemptner Hut suddenly becomes more murderous than anticipated. Stickelbroeck's series hero, ex-football professional and private detective Hartmann, masters the short pass in two brand new, crisp stories. And at the harbor at Windigen Eck, Düsseldorf's sharpest murder investigator, Pit "Struller" Struhlmann, faces some pretty stormy cases in two wonderfully quirky situations.