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Inspector Hunkeler is summoned back to Basel from his New Year holiday to unravel a gruesome killing in a community garden on the city's outskirts. An old man has been shot in the head and found in his garden shed hanging from a butcher's hook.Hunkeler must deal not only with the quarrelsome tenants of the garden but with the challenges of investigating a murder that has taken place outside his jurisdiction, across the French border in Alsace....

A Lebanese drug courier flushes the diamonds he is transporting down the Basel train station toilet before the police can seize him. The gems are found by a sewer maintenance worker determined to keep his lucky find. For the courier, finding the stones is a matter of life and death. His employers are on their way to "tidy things up".

1. Winner of the Friedrich Glauser Prize, Germany's most prestigious crime fiction award. Other winners have included Bernhard Schlink and Martin Suter. 2. The first novel available in English of a highly acclaimed series featuring Basel police inspector Peter Hunkeler, a character who has acquired legendary status in crime fiction written in German. The second title in the Inspector Hunkeler Series is called 'The Silver Pebbles' and will be...