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“A Case of One's Own Peril” (title translated by AI)

Kristian Novak (born 1979)

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A young traffic policeman is found dead on the back seat of his own car. The case is filed as suicide, but there was no autopsy and too much does not add up, so his family and much of the town doubt it and expect his older brother, also a policeman, to uncover the truth. Meanwhile an ambitious young teacher is preparing her secondary-school drama group to stage Antigone, with a method that demands great emotional effort, and she brings the policeman's death into their work, which divides the students. Chapters in the teacher's voice alternate with a screenplay that follows the two brothers, braiding a story of corruption, loyalty, the individual against the system and the price of justice.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
276 pages in the original
Genres
Crime (assigned by AI)
Set in
Croatia
First published
2023 by OceanMore
Author's age
44 when first published
ISBN

9789533321677 (original)