A dangerously good novel about the fine line between love and murder. "The simplest, yet also the most incredible book of the season." Thomas Steinfeld in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. "Just one step. But it is a different country, another world; we cross a border, we open a door of which we were previously unaware." A sentence that characterizes the author's tentative and curious narrative style as well as this outstanding novel, which possesses all the ingredients of a classic detective story yet is something entirely different and much more: There is the suspended police officer, marked by life, who now mostly investigates marital affairs as a private detective, the betrayed wife from a good background, a murder weapon with blood and parsley traces, and a murder. A murder as an extraordinary event that forms the backdrop.