Heinrich Steinfest
NERVOUS FISH

Piper - Crime Novel - 320 pages

For the Viennese Chief Inspector Lukastik, logician and devout Wittgensteinian, one thing is certain: "There are no mysteries."
He still thinks that when he discovers a dead man in the pool on the roof of a Viennese skyscraper, apparently recently killed by a shark attack. In the middle of Vienna, on the 28th floor. And without a trace of a shark.
Now the Viennese chief inspector is not only faced with one mystery, but countless ones: a hearing aid turns up, two assistants disappear. And the sharks are lurking somewhere ...

• "I repeat myself: Glorious! Divine! Steinfest!" - ZEIT

• 60.000 copies sold

• Black humour with a sense for the peculiar

• A lively, varied plot, free of clichés, with considerable suspense

Rights sold to: France (Carnets Nord), Hungary (Kiado Kereskedelmi)