Brenner and God by Wolf Haas

Introducing one of Europe's most widely popular detective series Wanting out of high-stress detective work, Simon Brenner takes a calming job as a chauffeur, shuttling a two-year-old girl back and forth in a soothing ride along the Autobahn between her father, a construction tycoon in Munich, and her mother, an abortion doctor in Vienna. Except then one day he stops at a gas station to buy the little girl a chocolate bar and comes back to find she'??s been kidnapped . . . and suddenly he'??s out of a job, thoroughly stressed out, and a detective again. With no shortage of leads'??both the father'??s latest development and the mother'??s clinic are under siege by protestors'??Brenner makes his way through a powerful cast of characters and a growing pile of bodies to solve the crime in the only way he knows how: By being in precisely the right place at the worst possible time. Told with sharp-edged wit, suspense that'??s even sharper, and one of the most quirky, hilarious, and compelling narrative voices ever. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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