An atmospheric, contemporary police procedural set on Lake Zurich, introducing detective Rosa ZambranoWater washes away everything, even the bodies.Lake Zurich is Rosa Zambrano's beat. Once a detective with the CID, she's traded in serious crimes for the serenity of the water, patrolling it daily as the first female officer in Zurich's maritime police force. But when the body of Dr Jansen, a renowned fertility doctor and successful biotech entrepreneur, is dredged up in a fisherman's nets, Rosa must call on her old training to solve his murder.This case hits close to home for Rosa - she's a patient of Jansen's, and had her eggs frozen at his clinic only days before he was killed. Her investigation leads her from opulent villas on Lake Zurich's shores to genetic research labs and a thriving escort service on the outskirts of the city - and to four women, each of whom in their own way have rejected the hand they have been dealt by biology or fate.

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Seraina Kobler, born in Locarno in 1982, studied linguistic and cultural studies before working as a journalist for publications including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Eventually setting up as a freelance author, in 2020 she published her debut novel, Regenschatten. Her first Zurich-based crime novel featuring officer Rosa Zambrano, Deep Dark Blue, spent months on the Swiss bestseller lists. Seraina Kobler lives with her family in Zurich.Alexandra Roesch is a bicultural, bilingual freelance translator based in Frankfurt, Germany. An experienced translator of fiction and nonfiction, she has an MA in translation from the University of Bristol and was longlisted for the 2018 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize.