Giuliana Linder and Renzo Donatelli make for one of the sharpest, most compelling police duos you’ll ever read.
—James Ziskin, author of BOMBAY MONSOON and the award-winning Ellie Stone mysteries
The second outing of Linder and Donatelli is as crisp and skilled as the first . . . .Brisk plot, depth of character, great setting—what’s not to love?”
—Laurie R. King, Edgar Award-winning author of thirty novels, including the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series
The second mystery in the Polizei Bern series will be out on April 18, 2023 and can already be pre-ordered.
Seventh Street Books, ISBN 9781645060581 Paperback $17.95, Kindle $9.99
Kim Hays balances winter-keen psychological insight with . . . the beauty of the most charming canton of Switzerland . . . . Giuliana Linder and Renzo Donatelli are compassionate, conflicted, and utterly compelling. Sons and Brothers is a must-read.
—Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
KIM HAYS has made her home in Bern since she married a Swiss. Pesticide, her first novel, was shortlisted for the 2020 Debut Dagger award by the Crime Writers’ Association. New York Times bestselling mystery author Deborah Crombie called it “a standout debut for 2022!” Kirkus Reviews says Sons and Brothers, the second book in the Polizei Bern series, is “a smart Swiss procedural that keeps its mystery ticking.”
Ask your local bookstore and your public library to order Sons and Brothers. It’s available from Simon and Schuster: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sons-Brothers/Kim-Hays/9781645060581
Or you can order it from an independent bookstore near you: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781645060581
More about Sons and Brothers:
A surgeon in his seventies doesn’t come home from walking his dog along Bern’s river and is found drowned; it’s clear his death was no accident. As Swiss police detective Giuliana Linder and her assistant Renzo Donatelli investigate the dead man’s background and family, suspicion falls on his middle son, Markus. A photographer with a history of violence and substance abuse, Markus was always a disappointment to his father.
During the year before his father’s death, Markus gets to know Jakob Amsler, a long-ago schoolmate of the surgeon’s in the village where they both lived as boys. From Jacob, Markus learns that his father’s life contained some ugly secrets. Now Giuliana and Renzo are circling in on those secrets, all the while dealing with their attraction to each other and their ambivalence about having an affair.
Latest Blog Posts
- Little Known Facts about Paradise
My friend Clare O’Dea is a dual citizen like me, but Swiss-Irish instead of Swiss-American. She’s also a writer of fiction and non-fiction and (unlike me) a professional journalist. A few weeks ago, she interviewed me for Switzerland’s version of an English-language online newsletter called The Local, which she writes for regularly. The article is meantContinue reading “Little Known Facts about Paradise” - Some Useful Rat
When I was about thirty, I traveled around Germany with one of my uncles. A year or two before that, I’d taken beginner German classes for two or three months. You’ve heard the saying, “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” Well, my trip to Germany made that clear. At the places we were staying, there wasContinue reading “Some Useful Rat” - The Cold Days of Carnival
Monday, February 27, at four in the morning, the city of Basel’s Fasnacht celebration began. Fasnacht is the German word for Carnival, and Basel’s lasts three days. Yesterday morning, despite darkness, icy cold, and the painfully early hour, thousands of people lined the streets of Switzerland’s third largest city to watch groups of men and womenContinue reading “The Cold Days of Carnival” - Coming Soon to a Bookstore near You
Last August, I posted about Sons and Brothers, the second book in the Polizei Bern series. August 2022 was when I got a first version of the front cover to show off. Now I have the front and back covers, and the book is due out in sixty-seven days, on April 18. Here’s the latest description ofContinue reading “Coming Soon to a Bookstore near You”
Kim Hays 