The Wagner Method

On his first case, Cesar investigates the apparently accidental death of a rising local football star with the help of the medical examiner, Dr. Beaumont.

Cesar is called to a curious crime scene: a young woman has been found completely drained of blood; the victim is a Romanian delegate to the European Court of Human Rights.

Two people are found dead within hours of each other near the Museum of Modern Art; evidence shows that they knew each other and were both linked to a celebrated local designer, Peter Breck -- Dr. Beaumont's husband.

A dead man in a Nazi costume leads investigators to neo-Nazi circles at the heart of the University of Strasbourg -- and to the legend of the Rhine gold.

Someone finds a human finger in a bottle of beer from a local brewery--owned by Caesar's cousins. He is determined to solve the mystery before the local press gets wind of it.