A stud farm in its former glory, a family at war. After a mysterious riding accident, the owner of a renowned stud farm lies in a coma. His family is subsequently torn apart by hatred and greed for the considerable inheritance. They would do anything for the legacy—but who would even commit murder? Chief Inspector Bodo Völxen tries to find out when the owner's unpopular second wife is found bludgeoned to death with a poker in the drawing-room. Völxen becomes entangled in a web of old feuds and soon realizes: In this family, anyone could be the killer. But other people also have reason to seek revenge… In this gripping Hanover crime novel by SPIEGEL bestselling author Susanne Mischke, the popular Inspector Bodo Völxen and his team investigate within the rural high society. Who is lying, who is killing—and why? Pure suspense until the very last page! Biography: Susanne Mischke, born in 1960 in Kempten/Allgäu, studied business administration and worked in various professions before turning to writing. After several years in Berlin, she now lives with her son near Darmstadt. She has numerous publications; in 1996 she received the Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Prize for Literature from the Darmstadt-Dieburg district; in 2001 she received the Wiesbaden Women's Crime Fiction Prize, the so-called "Agathe." Since 2001, she has been president of the German "Sisters in Crime." New product