Original Title
Totentanz
Date of publication
2008 Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Wien
Versions
Italian (Danza macabra 2008, Edizioni e/o), Spanish (La Danza de la Muerte, 2008, Siruela), French (La danse de la mort, 2010, Seuil)
Wealth produces waste. What to do with it? The answer comes from a little company specialised in waste disposal which has its headquarters in the embassy of a small unknown country in Eastern Europe. Waste makes money, most of all if it is possible to use the law at own’s one benefit. The case arrives on Commissario Laurenti’s desk when in that company’s office a young lady is found beaten to death. During the investigation Laurenti discovers several high profile crimes, but still cannot believe that his sworn enemy, Viktor Drakič, is back in town. Drakič’s only aim is revenge.
Veit Heinichen screenplays a danse macabre in which Commissario Laurenti will have to fight to survive.
Heinichen non lesina sui colpi di scena,ma sempre facendosi apprezzare per l'abilità, oseremmo dire gastronomica, della sua scrittura e per l'ironia con cui descrive la città, i suoi abitanti e persino lo svolgersi delle indagini, in cui può capitare che un arma del delitto possa essere alquanto originale"