The new Zurich-based crime series from Diogenes, presenting a wonderfully warmhearted investigator who is also a keen gardener and cook: Rosa Zambrano, an officer with the water police. 

Lake Zurich is Rosa’s beat. When a body is recovered from its blue depths, she realises the man looks eerily familiar. 

Shortly after Officer Rosa Zambrano has her eggs frozen at a fertility treatment centre on Lake Zurich, her doctor is found dead. Who might have wanted to get Dr Jansen – also a successful biotech entrepreneur – out of the way? The initial clues lead Rosa to a villa on the Goldcoast on Lake Zurich, to genetic research labs, deep into an alternative subculture and into the murky world of the sex trade – and to four women, each of whom in their own way reject the hand they have been dealt by biology or fate. 

One night in November, a fire rages at the Enge marina in the middle of Zurich. As the flames are extinguished, Rosa Zambrano – an officer with the water police – finds the charred corpse of a young woman. Why did Iva Schwarz, the daughter of a renowned architect, have to die?

Amid the twists and turns of the investigation, the former love of Rosa’s life, Leo, turns up in Zurich once more – suddenly appearing in her enchanting garden in the old part of town. Yet he is not the only ghost from the past that is haunting the city.