The 10th part of the series with the detective Syrový, a firm favourite with fans of Czech detective stories.

Crime/Detective, Literary fiction

Detektive Miko Syrový finds himself in his trickiest situation to date: his closest colleague and friend is arrested and Syrový has to stand up for him and for himself. Is the evidence simply incontrovertible or does it actually reveal the truth? Who has a skeleton from the past lurking in their closet and how does a mysterious phone call from an unknown man fit into the picture? Another instalment in the detective series by this author who served with the Czech police force for 15 years and writes under a pseudonym, has once again become a bestseller. This is the tenth book by Goffa to feature Detektive Mikuláš Syrový since 2013, when the first part of the series came out.

Martin Goffa (1973), former police officer, crime writer. He joined the Czech police force in the mid-1990s, started out as a policeman on the beat and spent the vast majority of his career as a detective with the crime squad. He left the force after fifteen years and is now an entrepreneur and writer. He is the author of the successful detective series featuring Detective Mikuláš Syrový (10 parts), which includes Vykoupení (Redemption, 2018) and Primární důvěra – Úhel pohledu (2019), the “torn novel” Rémi (2018) and the crime thriller Vánoční zpověď (Christmas Confession, 2015). He lives in Prague and writes under a pseudonym.