Flare
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Flare
The pile of ashes was a human body just yesterday. Lieutenant Volf's next case
The second book with Tomáš Volf, for which Jiří Březina received the Jiří Marek Award for the best detective story.
A supernatural phenomenon, a strange coincidence, or a subtle effort to destroy evidence? It's a case that makes even an experienced fire investigator shake his head. Finding answers will certainly not be easy. Lieutenant Tomáš Volf did not exactly fit in with his new colleagues at his new posting in Prague and is now alone in a complex investigation. Will returning to a closed case that began with the similarly gruesome discovery of a charred human body help him? But it could be that they stumble upon something that changes the lives of several people.
Jiří Březina
The České Budějovice native is one of the most outstanding Czech detective writers. His debut Na kopci (On the Hill) won the 2014 Jiří Marek Award for the best Czech detective novel. The book was published after ten years in a revised reissue. Březina repeated his success in 2020 with Flare from the detective series with police officer Tomáš Volf, which also includes the books Promlčení, Polednice, Mizení and Nalezení. He is also the author of the children's story Night Sun and the book The Swan and the Hunter, which combines his love of prehistory, myth and nature. Jurors, reviewers and readers appreciate Jiří Březina's original plots, the authenticity of the narrative and his skillful play with readers' expectations, which often results in unexpected twists and turns. His books have also been translated into Polish. He likes to spend his free time in nature, where he walks, runs, camps or rides his bike.
