The author Michael Wäser has embarked on a disturbing journey through time to the FRG province of the seventies and uncovered the dark undercoat beneath the supposed disco informality: Violence, alcohol addiction and abuse as the retreat of the rural patriarchy.

After his novel »In uns ist Licht« (In Us There is Light), half of which led into Biedermeier and Parisian and Berlin porcelain production, half into contemporary asylum seekers’ nightmares, and then his novel »Familie Fisch macht Urlaub« (Family Fish goes on Holiday) about an Erfurt caretaker family that uses the closing of the Wall in 1961 to flee the GDR, Michael Wäser now comes up with a murder series.

In a small Saarland village during the 1974 World Cup, ex-miner Müller puts a cruel plan into action with his son Gerald and an unexpected helper. For what is supposed to serve World Cup socialising in the freshly furnished party cellar with a brand-new colour television set will cost the lives of several young women.

Told in a language that does not allow the all-pervasive violence in the "settlement" to be forgotten at any moment – and you can take a look at a (German) reading sample HERE.