One Flew Over the Gull’s Nest (vol. XIV)

Forever young and dead in Fredenbüll

A relaxed summer evening at the Fredenbüll bathing spot comes to an unexpected end for ageing hippy Bounty and his friends, when they discover a sparkling diamond and an urn full of ashes in a seagull’s nest. Village policeman Thies Detlefsen immediately smells a rat and begins investigating. But Detlefsen’s daughter, Telje, is also in urgent need of her dad’s professional advice: She is currently completing a medical internship at a hospital in Sankt Peter-Düne, where the renowned professor Victor Nagy is researching a serum for eternal youth. But something isn’t right here. Patients are disappearing from the mysterious ward 7, a nurse doesn’t survive the night shift, and the tyrannical head nurse is clearly hiding something ...

  • Krischan Koch total print-run at dtv: approx. 1 million copies
  • For readers of ‘Agatha Raisin’ and ‘The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency’ by Alexander McCall Smith
Genre: Fiction, Crime / Thriller / Suspense, Humor
Krischan Koch

Krischan Koch was born in Hamburg in 1953, where he works as a film critic for a German broadcast station and a major weekly newspaper. He and his wife live in Hamburg and on the North Sea island of Amrum.

320 pages, ISBN: 978-3-423-22168-9
First published 2026