Crime/Detective

A dead girl is found on a housing estate. It should have been a routine case for rookie Tomáš Volf and his inexperienced partner. However, the murderer, nicknamed the Noonday Witch after the slavic mythical character, continues to haunt the apartment blocks, only striking in broad daylight. Detective Volf knows he has to do everything in his powers to succeed in his new role: deal with his stubborn partner as well as his superiors, survive the July heat and above all catch the murderer before another dead body hits the hot pavement.

This is Březina’s second book about detective Tomáš Volf after Time-barred (Promlčení). The author won the best Czech detective novel award in 2013 for his debut On the Hill (Na kopci).

Praise

“This is another high quality detective novel, which you won’t be able to put down from the beginning to the end.”

— Lukáš Loužický, Kultura21.cz

“[…] of the three detective novels Jiří Březina has written, The Noonday Witch is the best.”

— Jiří Lojín, Vašeliteratura.cz