Crime novel 315 pages, kt. EUR 9.40, sFr. 17.30 ISBN-10: 3-89425-286-3 ISBN-13: 978-3-89425-286-1 Original edition 1st print run Date of publication: February 2004 Jakob Buch is forced to start a new life: the plainclothes policeman from Wuppertal is so badly injured in an accident that he can no longer practice his profession. So he gives in to his wife Lee and follows her to San Francisco, where they create a new life for themselves. Lee is American by birth, and works for an environmental organization based in San Francisco. Jakob hasn't been in America for long before he witnesses a dog attack a beggar in a dark alley, almost tearing him to pieces. A few feet away he finds a second victim, a young woman. Jakob manages to put the dog out of action, but its owner cannot be found. Instead, Jakob himself is accused of having given the dog the fatal command. The incident haunts Jakob, and he returns to the scene of the tragedy, where he meets Gwen – a policewoman and a close friend of the dead woman. She wants to see the deed avenged, refusing to believe that the dog went out of control "just like that". Jakob and Gwen reconstruct the events and find more and more indications that the animal was trained to serve as a weapon. And they learn about more dog attacks. Who is behind them? And what pattern do they follow? Jakob discovers a side of sunny California that no guidebook mentions. And – as if that weren't enough – he also discovers a side of his wife Lee he never suspected before…

Crime novel 347 pages, kt. EUR 9.90, sFr. 18.10 ISBN-10: 3-89425-240-5 ISBN-13: 978-3-89425-240-3 Original edition 1st print run Date of publication: September 2000 Nora Konig’s house goes up in flames and one of her neighbours dies. This seems to be the gruesome climax of a ruthless estate agent’s campaign to remove tennants from their homes. The police conduct a half-hearted investigation and quickly rule out arson. Taxi driver Toni Walter offers accomodation to Nora and Lea, another surviver of the fire. Neither Nora nor Lea want to let their landlord off the hook and they start looking into the past. Then another of Gutenberg’s properties burns down but this time he is the victim. For Toni, already more involved than she intended, things are getting too hot to handle.

Crime novel 334 pages, kt. EUR 9.40, sFr. 17.30 ISBN-10: 3-89425-219-7 ISBN-13: 978-3-89425-219-9 Original edition 3rd print run Date of publication: February 1999 One evening a corpse is drifting in the Rhine just in front of the house of the taciturn taxi driver Toni Walter from Cologne. Panic-stricken she tries to recover him and almost dies. After this night Toni’s quiet days are gone: she gets to know the family of the dead boy Christian and is confronted with problems that stir her deeply. And the deaths in her surroundings are on the increase … When her girl friend Nora is attacked Toni starts to investigate. As a webmaster Nora has found instances of child pornography while working in the world wide web. The dead boy in the Rhine was one of the victims …