My reading is taking me around the world in just a few days. Set in the city of Bern, Switzerland we go back and forth within two timelines and two generations.
Giuliano and Renzo are two detectives who worked together amicably. Renzo very recently separated has feelings for his fellow detective which he feels will be reciprocated though she is married. He steps away and goes into this investigation single handed. A young man badly injured when another young man deliberately shakes the scaffolding he is working on, causing him to fall. Crashing into the suspect by accident, Renzo is able to pull the history of the antagonism between the young men. He then begins to unravel a death which took place years ago, and what was once deemed suicide is now a suspicious death, with plenty of suspects.
There are many points of interest - the small Croatian community in Switzerland, connected to each other closely. Then the very complicated subject of assisted death. Different from euthanasia, this was a subject examined closely in the story in connection with an investigation. The pros and cons of this controversial subject and the very professional workings of the organization called Exit - assisting people with decisions concerning their death, meticulously tabled. Very good subject anyway.
Sent by Seventh Street Books for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.
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