Is it redemption - or murder? In the tough crime thriller 'Death is my gift', the unconventional inspector Mia Sommer and her tech-savvy partner Björn Lassner have to stop an angel of death. A series of inexplicable deaths shakes hospitals and care facilities in Wuppertal. When it turns out that the deceased patients were all treated with the same drug, a first lead leads to Dr. Markus Berger's palliative care network. Is the highly respected doctor really an angel of death who believes he is giving salvation to his patients? Detectives Mia Sommer and Björn Lassner soon have to dive deep into the darkest human abysses. Because while Dr. Berger is already in custody, the series of murders of palliative patients continues ... Dark crime novel with thriller elements and an unusual, strong investigator Inspector Mia Sommer lives with a woman and doesn't say no to an occasional joint. With her rather conservative partner Björn Lassner, she forms a congenial team that is passionately committed to justice. Andreas Schmidt takes up social taboos in his crime series. Mia Sommer and Björn Lassner solve their first case in the crime thriller 'Hate is my love', which is about the so-called "Bonny & Clyde" syndrome, a very unusual form of love. Biography Andreas Schmidt, born in Wuppertal in 1969, has worked as an author on pulp novel series such as John Sinclair, Jessica Bannister and Jerry Cotton, among others. His first crime novel was published in 1998.