Swedish Bitters

By Ines Hrain

Swedish bitters has everything that a crime story needs, intriguing plot, lively characters, well followed plot and a logical, but unexpected denouement. In the small iconic Croatian city of Varaždin , unexplained deaths start to happen. One winter night, on a frozen pathway of a park, a dead elderly lady was found. Police investigation reveals that it was murder. That is only the beginning of the bloody events which will shake the city. Two police inspectors are working on this case. During the investigation, there are many revealed secrets of suspected persons, but the main culprit is not revealed until the last moment.
Ines Hrain is a croatian writer at a rise and is an author of five novels of which some were translated to slovenian and english. Her style is direct and funny, and her novels are read in one go.
Crime story „Swedish bitters“ is authentically work whose leitmotiv is one real murder, and authors father by profession was a police investigator by whom the main character from the story was made. Ines Hrain is called Croatian Agatha Christie.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ines Hrain
• Release date: Feb 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370879359

Ines Hrain

INES HRAIN pripada novijoj generaciji hrvatskih pisaca i na književnoj sceni prisutna je već više od deset godina. Autorica je romana Najdeblja, Sjajni je bal, Kolagen, Pusti otok i Švedska grenčica. Romani su urbani i moderni, njezin stil je lagan i prepoznatljiv, te ih je čitalačka publika sjajno prihvatila. Ines ne piše o nepoznatom glamuru New Yorka, niti o bogatim izmišljenim prijetvornim miljeima, već o svakodnevnim ljudima i njihovom životu. Piše duhovitim i iznenađujuće osvježavajućim stilom. Do sada su joj djela prevedena na slovenski i engleski. Živi i radi U Varaždinu. INES HRAIN belongs to the new generation of Croatian writers and has been present on the literary scene for more than ten years. She is the author of the novels Najdeblja, Sjajni je bal, Kolagen, Pusti otok i Švedska grenčica. The novels are urban and modern, her style is light and recognizable, and the reading audience accepted it very well. Ines does not write about the unknown glamor of New York, nor about rich fictional threatening milieu, but about everyday people and their lives. She writes in a funny and surprisingly refreshing style. So far, her works have been translated into Slovenian and English. He lives and works in Varaždin.

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