Strange Waters

Angelika Schöllkopf suddenly collapses at the rostrum in the German Bundestag. The cameras are rolling as she dies, just before she starts her speech. ’
Pictures of her death dominate the media for two whole days, then the public forgets the incident. Only members of her family refuse to believe Angelika died of sudden heart failure.
They commission private detective Georg Dengler to carry out further investigations. Dengler wants to know why the scripts of the planned speech have disappeared. Suddenly, he finds himself in the middle of a global power struggle between major energy companies.

Fremde Wasser is the third book in the successful Dengler series. Once again, we meet the detective Georg Dengler, his attractive neighbour, the thief Olga, his friend and writer of horoscopes, Martin Klein, and the artist Mario, who starts a dangerous new job. »In this detective novel, very little is made up,« says Wolfgang Schorlau, who researched extensively into the methods used by German and international enterprises all over the world to secure access to water rights.

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  • Publisher: Kiepenheuer & Witsch eBook
  • Release: 21.09.2009
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-30013-0
  • 272 Pages
  • Series: Dengler ermittelt
  • Author: Wolfgang Schorlau
Strange Waters
Wolfgang Schorlau Strange Waters
Timo Kabel
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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.

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