The Loose Dog

  • SPIEGEL Bestseller – highest position #1
  • 100,000 copies sold

Commissario Antonio Morello, known as “the loose dog,” has arrested corrupt politicians in Sicily and is now on the mafia’s hit list. For his protection, he is transferred to Venice. While Morello, thanks to his beautiful neighbor Silvia, starts taking to the city he initially hated, the young leader of a local initiative against cruise ships is being murdered. The Commissario’s first Venetian case turns out to be a highly political one.

With Der freie Hund, Wolfgang Schorlau and Claudio Caiolo deliver the high-energy debut to a new crime series. Claudio Caiolo received his first pair of children’s shoes from the mafia – in exchange for his older brother’s vote. He is very familiar with the entanglement of politics and crime in his homeland. And, in Wolfgang Schorlau, the creator of the private investigator Georg Dengler, he has found the ideal partner for taking a fresh look at an old Italian disaster together.

Contact Foreign Rights
Rights sold to

Turkey: Iletisim

  • Publisher: KiWi-Taschenbuch
  • Release: 06.05.2021
  • 336 pages
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-00147-1
Timo Kabel

Wolfgang Schorlau

Wolfgang Schorlau lives and works as a freelance writer in Stuttgart. His acclaimed Dengler series, which has been adapted to the screen, now comprises 11 novels and sold 1,6 million copies. He received the German Crime Fiction Award in 2006 and the Stuttgart Crime Fiction Award in 2012 and 2014 and the Stuttgart Ebner Stolz Business Crime-Fiction Prize in 2019. Since 2020, with Claudio Caiolo, he has been co-writing the Venice crime novels featuring Comissario Morello.

Philipp Böll

Claudio Caiolo

Claudio Caiolo was born in Sicily and attended the Avogaria theater school in Venice. In 1996, he moved to Stuttgart, where he wrote, directed, and performed plays for children and adults. Since 2020, with Wolfgang Schorlau, he has been co-writing the Venice crime novels featuring Comissario Morello.

Further Titles

All Books