Death in the Dolomites · Book 1
Wine and Cold Blood
by Alexander Emmerich
Vineyards, mountain lakes and villages that keep their silence. Commissaria Elena Rinaldi and Ispettore Lukas Gasser investigate in South Tyrol – Italy’s German-speaking north, where every case has two languages and a long memory.
Reading Order
The series in order
Every novel is a complete case – but the partnership between Rinaldi and Gasser grows from book to book.
Book 1 · Lake Kaltern
Wine and Cold Blood
A Death in the Dolomites Mystery
A death at Lake Kaltern, a village that closes ranks, and a Commissaria nobody wanted. Elena Rinaldi has barely arrived in South Tyrol when a body turns up in the wine country – and the friendliest people in the valley start telling the same story a little too well.
Together with Ispettore Lukas Gasser, local, laconic and impossible to read, she has to find out what the lake did not keep – and what the village has been hiding for twenty-five years.
Book 2 · Lake Carezza
Still Waters of Carezza
A Death in the Dolomites Mystery
A historian lies dead in the shallow water of Lake Carezza, a black violin string tied around her wrist. The trail leads Rinaldi and Gasser into the legendary Grand Hotel Carezza – and back to 1943, when art disappeared there that someone is still willing to kill for.
Coming soon
Book 3 · Steinegg
The Killing Rock
A Death in the Dolomites Mystery
A rockfall above the mountain village of Steinegg looks like an accident. It isn’t. To solve it, Rinaldi and Gasser have to open an old case the whole village agreed to forget – and find out who was left behind in the dark.
Coming soon
Book 4 · Bolzano
Evil in Bolzano
A Death in the Dolomites Mystery
The fourth case takes Rinaldi and Gasser to the heart of South Tyrol: Bolzano, its arcades and its markets – and a crime that is very much of the present.
Coming soon
Vineyards in winter rain, a lake that is no postcard – and a truth that lies under the snow.
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