In his fifth book, Wolfgang Schierlitz playfully demonstrates that the quiet season is often not so quiet after all. Whether the determined Guglmänner embark on a quest for ancient mysteries or a lost Bavarian blows his melancholy out to the Baltic Sea, there is always something happening during the Christmas season. And when marriage proposals or not-so-legal explosives come into play, it’s not just the candles on the Advent wreath that are burning. All the Christmas stress melts away with a laugh in these stories, and even in the midst of the greatest hustle and bustle, the realization remains: it could be much worse.