“Inspector Pavarotti Never Came to Rome” by Elisabeth Florin

That’s not now fits the image of sunny, charming South Tyrolean city of Merano. Since a German couple is calmly at the pool of a luxury hotel – and is killed with one aimed shot in the forehead. The victim, Anna and Lex Santer from glassworks in the Taunus have them obviously not even noticed, so relaxed they are still in death. This looks like a professional job.

But not for Inspector Luciano Pavarotti, not related, not related by marriage and not verschwippt with the famous tenor, for the fourth time protagonist of a All South Tyrol thrillers by Elisabeth Florin.

Here lived the Santer, he analyzes as a partner agency, the investment funds it as a writer of detective novels with historical background. There however, Liselotte has withdrawn from the mirror – the last to Pavarotti would meet again. Here, “Lissie” is amateur detective and crime writer also been his great love, until a dramatic event damaged their relationship beyond repair.

Had he once equated Lissie’s heart with his longing Rome, as is now certain that he would get there “never”.

Of course meet Pavarotti and Lissie, two mutually attracting and repelling poles, but each other. Soon both stuck in the case Santer, but follow carefully separate paths. Lissie was in fact a good friend Anna Santer and the same publisher under contract. She knows that Anna was working on an explosive revelation story, so Pavarotti accompanied (of the murderer in the context of big money suspected) to Merano and rents in the footsteps of those killed in the hotel one.

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In fact, she cooks her own thing, because like they would even launch a bestseller about Anna’s theme.

Annas and Lissie research an unused, very interesting and, moreover, historically authentic theme comes into play. After the war, in addition to respectable fugitives also a lot of large-caliber Nazis and collaborators to South America have (also known as “Monastery route” or “Roman Way”) on the “rat line” settled. South Tyrol was for all the first and most useful station abroad, because the region was no longer in December 1945 under Allied control was traditionally sympathetic to the Germans, and especially were the clergy and the Red Cross, numerous influential helpers prepared the false papers could procure and new identities. The Vatican and Allied intelligence supported these activities as part of their anti-communist politics and took into account that they thus deprive yourself of war criminals and SS murderers jurisdiction and bestowed them many carefree years in freedom.

The author binds this issue prominently in their plot one (including italics remote flashbacks and an informative annex of eight pages), but does not into the center of the narrated action. Certainly there were many escape episodes from the time that would have offered for the treatment in a gripping thriller. Then Elisabeth waived Florin. Instead, we follow complex and dangerous search until the investigators and we can finally understand a complex interwoven trace of the “rat line” to the Meran double murder

A lot of space -. In my opinion, too much – does the design of the characters and the relationships between them, especially as the cloverleaf of the protagonists (Pavarotti, Lissie and Ispettore Emmenegger) always slip further into the slope and rather drifting apart in the current case, rather than cooperate. Lissie is struggling with alcohol problems, memory problems and uncontrolled hyperactivity. Pavarotti, mentally unstable and with surprisingly underdeveloped knowledge of human nature behaves like a pompous and arrogant “media star of Merano”.

Ispettore Emmenegger finally (secretly also an admirer Lissie) was indeed given recognition in the form of a promotion, but at the end of the day, but only the sad “dog” of his master and gets its whims as kicks off. He already struggling with the memories of his ex who ever swung a “spatula” when he once again all the money had drunk in a bar. This time, his alcohol consumption tragic consequences.

Elisabeth Florin fourth Tyrol crime is a complex opus that surprises the reader with many turns, builds a good voltage and sent maintains (Cliffhanger) then one that would like to stay on the ball. But the interesting “rat line” only provides the background while the protagonists are allowed to live out their feelings, quirks and weaknesses in detail. Although a little delicate irony helps that the psychological profile does not push the crime to the edge, but I hope that the three different self-contradictory characters until the next case lay their Selbstbespiegelungen and jealousies, reflect back on their strengths and find reasonable each other – in the interest of a concentrated investigative work.