Author: Wolf Haas Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Crime, Fiction
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ISBNs: 9781612191690 9783499228322 161219169X 3499228327 |
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At a wildly popular chicken shack in the Austrian countryside, where snooty Viennese gourmands go to indulge their secret passion for fried chicken, a gruesome discovery is made in the pile of chicken bones waiting to be fed into the basement grinder: human bones.
But when private eye Simon Brenner shows up to investigate, the manager of the restaurant, who hired him, has disappeared ... while the owner of the place urges him to stay on and eat chicken.
Brenner likes chicken, so he stays, but as he waits for the manager, he discovers that the bucolic countryside is full of suspicious types: prostitutes, war profiteers, unsavory art dealers, Slavic soccer champs with dubious pasts -- and at least one rather grisly murderer. And the more Brenner looks into things, the more it dawns on him that there's a cleaver somewhere with his name on it.
This book is part of the "Brenner" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Brenner and God" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Come, Sweet Death!" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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