The Murder of Anton Livius
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Published: 2023
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Hunkeler und der Fall Livius
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781913394875
Description: 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.  The clues lead to the Emmental in Berne, and then to Alsace where wounds from the Second World War have never healed.