Wanting out of high-stress detective work, Simon Brenner takes a calming job as a chauffeur, shuttling a two-year-old girl back and forth in a soothing ride along the Autobahn between her father, a construction tycoon in Munich, and her mother, an abortion doctor in Vienna.

Except then one day he stops at a gas station to buy the little girl a chocolate bar and comes back to find shes been kidnapped . . . and suddenly hes out of a job, thoroughly stressed out, and a detective again.

With no shortage of leadsboth the fathers latest development and the mothers clinic are under siege by protestorsBrenner makes his way through a powerful cast of characters and a growing pile of bodies to solve the crime in the only way he knows how: By being in precisely the right place at the worst possible time.

Told with sharp-edged wit, suspense thats even sharper, and one of the most quirky, hilarious, and compelling narrative voices ever.