{"product_id":"sons-and-brothers-9781645060581","title":"Sons and Brothers","description":"\u003cb\u003eKim Hays' second novel serves us a suspicious drowning, ugly secrets, and unresolved romantic tension . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWalking his dog along Bern's Aare river on an icy November night, a surgeon in his seventies is hit in the face and thrown into the river to drown. When his bruised corpse is found, his watch is missing. A mugging gone wrong? The more Swiss police detective Giuliana Linder and her assistant Renzo Donatelli learn about Johann Karl Gurtner, the more convinced they are that his death was not random. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTalking to Gurtner's family raises as many questions as it answers, but one thing becomes clear: the surgeon's relationship with his middle son, Markus, was grim. Tracking others who might have had reason to hate Gurtner, Giuliana and Renzo find themselves once again dealing with their attraction to one another and their ambivalence about having an affair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBehind their investigation, another story has been unfolding. During the year leading up to Gurtner's death, his son Markus became friends with a former classmate of his father's from the village where the two men grew up. Unlike the privileged young Gurtner, Jakob Amsler was forcibly removed from his mother at nine and contracted to live and work on a village farm. From Jakob, Markus learns that his father's early life contains some very odd secrets--secrets that Giuliana and Renzo are now trying to uncover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKim Hays is an American who moved to Bern thirty-five years ago when she married a Swiss; by then, she'd already lived in the US, San Juan, Vancouver, and Stockholm. She studied at Harvard and Berkeley, and before beginning the Polizei Bern series, she worked in a number of jobs, including executive director of a small nonprofit and lecturer in sociology. \u003ci\u003eA Fondness for Truth \u003c\/i\u003eis her third police procedural featuring Swiss detectives Linder and Donatelli. The first, \u003ci\u003ePesticide\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), was shortlisted for a CWA Debut Dagger Award and a 2023 Silver Falchion Award for Best Mystery. Kirkus called the second mystery, \u003ci\u003eSons and Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), \"a smart Swiss procedural that keeps its mystery ticking.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seventh Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50508877103378,"sku":"9781645060581","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_05e8e0d8-26d1-460a-aa50-89bbdaa374e4.jpg?v=1730881202","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sons-and-brothers-9781645060581","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}