The brilliant start of a crime series featuring Leander Lost – the inspector who can’t lie
Faro, Portugal. Assistant inspector Rosado and her colleague Esteves welcome a lanky guy in a black suit: chief inspector Leander Lost from Hamburg, who will be serving with the Polícia Judiciária for one year. He is in Portugal on an exchange program for police inspectors - “Let’s exchange our best” was the motto of the Europol brochure.
Yet the oddly dressed Lost baffles his Portuguese colleagues: Why is he already fluent in Portuguese after just three weeks of language classes – yet still doesn’t get any of their jokes? Why does he stare at people so oddly – yet is so touchingly and old-fashionedly polite?
On the tricky trail of the murderer of a private detective, the trio not only slowly tracks down the dirty dealings of the company that has taken over the water supply on the Algarve. The German inspector’s alleged shortcomings also increasingly reveal themselves to be criminological advantages. And, in the course of the investigation, Leander Lost learns for the first time in his life what it means to be part of a team. All the more so since Soraia, assistant inspector Rosado’s pretty and worldly-wise sister, develops a keen interest in him…
