What Lurks on the Shore

The Second Case for Gianna Pitti

  • Journalist Gianna Pitti's second case could rewrite World history

An unidentified female corpse, an attempted kidnapping, and secret writings by Winston Churchill that could change world history: Gianna and her family become entangled in yet another explosive investigation.

Young journalist Gianna Pitti is sent to meet an informant at the request of her father. At first, there doesn’t seem to be anyone there, but then Gianna spots something in the water: a woman’s body! A car drives off – could the driver be the murderer? Near the body, Gianna finds an empty CD-case labeled “Churchill’s secret.” Together with her father, her uncle and editor-in-chief Elvira Sondrini, Gianna sets out to uncover the mystery behind the dead woman and the empty CD case.

In the library of the family villa, they discover notes from Gianna’s great-grandfather, who spent a few days with the former British Prime Minister at the Baia delle Sirene. Meanwhile, shots are fired in Malcesine: an attempted kidnapping of a British historian researching Winston Churchill. Is this incident connected to the murder on the shore? As the Pittis slowly try to unravel this web of crime and political and historical intrigue, will what they discover end up rewriting history?

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  • Publisher: KiWi-Paperback
  • Release: 08.05.2025
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-00767-1
  • 288 Pages
  • Series: Ermittlungen am Gardasee
  • Author: Lenz Koppelstätter
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Lenz Koppelstätter

Lenz Koppelstätter  was born in South Tyrol in 1982 and grew up there. He worked as a media developer and as a reporter for  Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung  and  Salon . All eight volumes of his crime series featuring Commissario Grauner have enjoyed enormous popular and critical success, his second series featuring journalist Gianna Pitti is set in the Lake Garda region.