Buchvernissagen mit Philipp Gurt

When a strangely dressed figure enters the Graubündner Kantonalbank in Chur on a rainy Thursday morning in 1953, a crime takes its course: the bank director is brutally killed in the robbery. One day after the ceremonial burial, the gamekeeper is sure that he has discovered the director's body high up in the enchanted Scaläratobel northeast of the city. But the bishop himself has buried him in front of many mourners, and the resting place in the cemetery is untouched. Hours later, two crows circle screeching above the foggy ravine, which everyone has known for generations is cursed when Landjäger Caminada and Lieutenant Marugg have made the steep and dangerous ascent to check the witness statement. What the two find is even gruesome. But this is only the beginning, because the gate to hell is wide open.

Philipp Gurt was born in 1968 as the seventh of eight children of a poor mountain farming family in Graubünden and grew up in various children's homes. Gurt wrote short stories as a teenager, and his first novel followed at the age of twenty. He has always had an intimate relationship with nature, which was also to shape his highly atmospheric writing. His connection to the canton of Graubünden, where he still lives today as a freelance writer, can be felt in each of his novels.

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