Kreuziger's Death

A small Austrian mountain village, back in the 1970's. Franz Kreuziger, the son of the former mayor, is discovered dead in the forest - with an axe in his head. A suspect is soon found: an embittered woman whose handicapped son was »disposed of« at the mayor's instigation during the Nazi period. But a local artist and the village priest, who is deeply religious and reclusive in equal measure, both know more about the murder than they ought to and are not above suspicion themselves. And even when the murderer is eventually identified, this is by no means the end of the story…

A book about horror striking high in the Alps - not for those of a delicate disposition