gsisk reviewed on 1/5/2013 + 193 more book reviews

One of the best psychological mysteries I've read in a while.

Gunder Jomann, never married, decides to go to India to find himself a wife. He succeeds, but on the day she is due to arrive, his sister has a terrible car accident. He sends a friend to pick up his wife, but the friend cannot find Poona at the airport. Later, Poona is discovered having been beaten to death in a meadow, not too far from Gunder's home.

A witness points the finger to a young bodybuilder, but was it really him? Others were around the same location at the same time. Everybody knows a little something, but nobody is really talking, because nobody wants to accuse a neighbor outright in this little village.

Fantastically dense characters and the story is very touching. Don't expect a neat ending.

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