High summer has Bornholm firmly in its grip, and Lennart Ipsen is on vacation, as things are rather quiet at the island's police station. Meanwhile, Lennart's girlfriend Maren's upscale restaurant, Argousier, is bustling – until one evening a guest collapses and dies. It quickly becomes clear that he died from poisoning by a local plant. An accident due to carelessness? Or murder? Lennart immediately returns to work, but due to a conflict of interest, he's barred from officially investigating. So he takes matters into his own hands, because suspicion against Maren, that she had something to do with the man's death, is growing stronger – and putting her entire life's work in jeopardy... biography Michael Kobr, born in 1973 in Kempten and raised in Kempten and Durach, is a secondary school teacher of German and French. He lives in Memmingen with his wife. His Allgäu crime novel 'Erntedank' (Harvest Festival) was awarded the 2005 Bavarian Art Prize in the literature category. New product