Балкански ритуал

A rare book stolen from the Vatican surfaces out of nowhere, a girl is found murdered, and Commissioner Kolev, a lonely man with a ruined past and little future ahead, is drawn into a case that leads from the parliament in Sofia to Rome, Persepolis and the banks of the Euphrates. The trail runs through archaeological riddles and the trade in cultural heritage, through the secrets of the former socialist state, now mutated into new forms of corruption, through secret services and the Church, and on into the Iraq crisis and the Kurdish question. Bulgaria's political, business and church elites, modelled on easily recognisable public figures, cross paths with Kolev, who holds the key to secrets of power, forgiveness and blame.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

520 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Politics (assigned by AI)

First published

2019 by Colibri

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9786190203674 (original)