Stajska bolest

In a provincial region of pastoral landscapes, still scarred by the latest of its wars, a young woman is murdered outside a safe house. A local journalist sets out to uncover the killer's motives and finds that crime has worked its way into the structures of power, which in turn breed it: cross-border cooperation means shady deals between politicians and criminals. In the seemingly more civilised capital, someone poisons the dog of a retired university professor as a message about his work for human rights. Meanwhile a young woman looks after the animals on a farm. Through characters mostly left unnamed, the novel weaves domestic violence, people smuggling, corrupt power and a society sliding towards fascism together with the deep bond between people and dogs and horses.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

292 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2016 by Sandorf

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9789533510040 (original)