The Beast

October 2022, 520 pages

Rights sold to: Poland (Afera)

Available material: English summary

 Political corruption, media scandal, and murder collide

When a journalist exposes the Interior Minister’s shady underworld connections, a televised confrontation ignites national outrage. Days later, the journalist and his girlfriend are found dead –executed with chilling precision. As investigator Laura Ara and her team delve deeper, they uncover links to an older, unsolved case and a tangled web of political cover-ups, mafia ties, and foreign interference. Is this merely an attempt to silence a journalist – or part of something far darker?

Chief investigator Laura Ara and her colleagues (including Václav Cesta, whom readers will know from the crime novel Hear the Stags Singing) wade through a morass of political mafia, godfathers, and lobbyists with links to foreign criminal gangs.

The chief investigator Laura Ara’s first part series