Deadly Dealings

DEADLY DEALINGS: A man is shot right in front of his office door, ripping private detective Robert Tarne out of his sweet daydreams. Why here and why now, why him? Is it just a coincidence? And what about the blood-stained key that the dying man manages to hand over to him just before the cops arrive? In Deadly Dealings, the latest Robert Tarne crime novel, we meet a kaleidoscope of characters, including shadowy elite police units of the German government. With millions at stake and all sides claiming to be on the "right side", Tarne is challenged as never before. The action takes place in The Ruhr Area (in German: Ruhrgebiet), the sprawling, gritty heart of the historic coal and industrial zone along the Ruhr River, still the most populous area of Germany. It is a cultural and economic melting pot, almost a country in itself. Readers will be surprised to learn that the proper and organized Germans also operate in an very gray area when it comes to the law. This is a novel about German culture you don¿t read about in the tourist guides!