There is no anagram that justifies the curious pseudonym taken by Daniela Larcher. Simply this author would be looking for an easy name to remember to publish her books. And to faith that she has achieved it. In fact, I myself have used it to call my friend Alejandro, a good beer fan.
Beyond the easy joke, Daniela Larcher points to a powerful addition to the ever-growing imaginary of black gender European. And perhaps the search for a pseudonym that stands out against so much competition will also go that way. Daniela has everything else, I mean consistent plots; fast mimicry characters; games of light and shadow around disturbing investigations; crimes that point to the most treacherous perfection and a setting as captivating as it is unsettling, the Vienna between the wars.
Because for now Alex guides us through the imperial city of Vienna, a cultural and scientific stronghold still well into the XNUMXth century. That Vienna located in the geographical heart of the world wars offers glimpses between romantic and melancholic of what could have been a new rebirth without so many ambitions and rancor.
But beyond wars, Vienna is, in the hands of Alex Beer, a city with ghosts that slide between palaces, confused between remote quarrels and unsuspected ambitions...
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The second rider
The misery that appears under a first and fragile layer of recent splendor transforms Vienna into a showcase of horrors. As happened in any other European city involved in major conflicts. Among a civil spirit that points to altruism, solidarity and help, the situation also invites the dark sides of each person to proliferate. Because in that Vienna there is no longer any room for great ceremonies and the survival of every neighbor's child, especially those of traditional origin, cannot be given over only to appearances in a new, more hostile order.
A captivating story set in interwar Vienna, by the rising star of the Austrian crime novel. Vienna, shortly after the end of the First World War. The splendor of the imperial city is a thing of the past, Vienna sinks into hunger and misery.
August Emmerich, who participated in the war and hides the aftermath of a leg injury, discovers the body of a beggar who has allegedly committed suicide. As an experienced investigator, he does not trust appearances, but he has no evidence to prove his theory that it is a murder and his superior files the case.
Emmerich and his assistant, Ferdinand Winter, decide to carry out their own investigation, and so begins an exciting and dangerous chase through the streets of bleak postwar Vienna, filled with outcasts, criminals and citizens struggling to survive.
Woman in red
Conspiracies in the shadows with hints of espionage. Only that the matter focuses on the Vienna that Alex Beer has made microcosm of everything. And sometimes sticking to detail manages to better explain a complete phenomenon such as the convulsive Europe between the wars. The part for the whole as a perfect historical synecdoche. Vienna with its stony elegance, carved like an artistic ensemble only submerged in shadows that obscure any artistic manifestation to finally enter ominous alleys, the wild side of a city, where everyone will conjure their worst desires to thrive above anyone else.
Vienna, 1920. Inspector August Emmerich's city is a place of extremes where the population lives between great hardship, political instability and a very active nightlife. While his colleagues work on a media case, the murder of popular councilor Richard Fürst, Emmerich and his assistant Ferdinand Winter have to play "babysitters" for a famous actress who he fears for her life. While protecting her, they not only find a sinister connection to Fürst, but also uncover an elaborate assassination plot. Thus begins a dramatic race against the clock that will allow the reader to enter the abysses of the city and its inhabitants.
