Despite being the first novel to come to Spain by Daniela Larcher (that's the name of the author after the pseudonym, a translated Álex Cerveza that in Spanish would not eat a literary colín), this author has already had her good years emerging in a black gender from her country where she herself and perhaps Wolf haas o Ursula Poznanski are the most redeemable in the criminal narrative.
But in the case of Daniela or Alex, this novel published already in 2017 aimed to take off probably above the other authors mentioned. So surely we will find new Viennese installments of this author already compared to Philip kerr in his literary series on Berlin.
A captivating story set in interwar Vienna, by the rising star of the Austrian crime novel. Vienna, shortly after the end of the First World War. The splendor of the imperial city is a thing of the past, Vienna sinks into hunger and misery.
August Emmerich, who participated in the war and hides the aftermath of a leg injury, discovers the body of a beggar who has allegedly committed suicide. As an experienced investigator, he does not trust appearances, but he has no evidence to prove his theory that it is a murder and his superior files the case.
Emmerich and his assistant, Ferdinand Winter, decide to carry out their own investigation, and so begins an exciting and dangerous chase through the streets of bleak postwar Vienna, filled with outcasts, criminals and citizens struggling to survive.
You can now buy the novel "The Second Horseman", a book by Alex Beer, here:
