The Balkan crime novel from Wieser Verlag! The late summer idyll is deceptive. Against the picturesque backdrop of Rovinj and other locations in Istria, Joe Prohaska operates on the edge of legality, yet he cannot help but delve into the truth that connects the late victims and perpetrators of the war in former Yugoslavia. Joe Prohaska, a former chief detective from Stuttgart with German-Croatian roots, has been living in a tiny village near Rovinj since his early retirement. He has just become a silent partner in a small photography shop run by his childhood friend Ivo. Prohaska intends to work solely as a photographer and publish a monograph on Istria. However, one night he witnesses a robbery.