The mattress house : a Kovacs & Horn investigation / Paulus Hochgatterer ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: A Kovacs & Horn investigationPublication details: London : MacLehose, 2012Description: 248 p. ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857050298 (pbk.); 9780857050281 (hbk.); 0857050281 (hbk.)Other title: Mattress house : a Kovacs and Horn investigation [Other title]Subject(s): Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rüstungsautonomie und Äussere Sicherheit | Detective and mystery stories, Austrian | Suspense fiction | Psychiatrists - Austria - Fiction | Psychiatrists -- Austria -- Fiction | Police -- Austria -- Fiction | Kleinstadt | Kindesmisshandlung | Psychiater | Aufklärung | Police | Psychiatrists | Österreich | AustriaGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. | Detective and mystery stories | Suspense fiction | Suspense fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Belletristische Darstellung. | Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945. | Fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Thriller fiction DDC classification: 833.92 LOC classification: PT2668.O275 | M3813 2012Other classification: 830 | B Summary: Springtime in Furth am See: psychiatrist Raffael Horn worries about his marriage, Criminal Commissioner Kovacs is dreading a visit from his daughter; life goes on for the cast of unhinged townsfolk who peopled The Sweetness of Life. But when a man falls to his death from scaffolding, murder is suspected. Then a beaten child is brought in to the police, soon followed by others showing similar signs of abuse. This leads to an outbreak of hysteria in Furth, and Horn and Kovacs are put under serious pressure to find the perpetrator. But more horrifying crimes lie behind these beatings.
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Springtime in Furth am See: psychiatrist Raffael Horn worries about his marriage, Criminal Commissioner Kovacs is dreading a visit from his daughter; life goes on for the cast of unhinged townsfolk who peopled The Sweetness of Life. But when a man falls to his death from scaffolding, murder is suspected. Then a beaten child is brought in to the police, soon followed by others showing similar signs of abuse. This leads to an outbreak of hysteria in Furth, and Horn and Kovacs are put under serious pressure to find the perpetrator. But more horrifying crimes lie behind these beatings.
Translated from the German.
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