Steam-bread Blues

It's business as usual: crime is rife in Niederkaltenkirchen...

Franz Eberhofer's relationship with Susi is ticking along quite nicely and his pigsty of a home is finally approaching something resembling order. But then things start spinning out of control in Niederkaltenkirchen. The body of high school teacher Hopfli is found on the railway line. Okay, he may have been a royal pain in the arse, but is that any reason to do a runner and then turn up dead on the tracks? And was it suicide or murder? Franz is well and truly pissed off; Susi has fled to Italy, and now he finds his investigations leading him into the murky world of gay hustlers and rent boys. And as if that wasn't enough, he's lumbered with the tedious chore of babysitting his brother's ghastly toddler. It's just as well he has his dear old granny to look after his creature comforts, because he'll need all his strength for the bloodcurdling showdown with a fearsome former legionnaire…