Summer House with Swimming Pool - Herman Koch

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Category: Suspense

Narrator: Unknown

Tags: Suspense, Contemporary

When a medical mistake goes horribly wrong and Ralph Meier, a famous actor, winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser is forced to conceal the error from his patients and family. After all, reputation is everything in this business. But the weight of carrying such a secret lies heavily on his mind, and he cant keep hiding from the truthor the Board of Medical Examiners., The problem is that the real truth is a bit worse than a simple slipup. Marc played a role in Ralphs death, and hes not exactly upset that the man is gone. Still haunted by his eldest daughters rape during their stay at Ralphs extravagant Mediterranean summerhouse-one they shared with Ralph and his enticing wife, Judith, film director Stanley Forbes and his far younger girlfriend, Emmanuelle, and Judiths mother-Marc has had it on his mind that the perpetrator of the rape could be either Ralph or Stanley. Stanleys guilt seems obvious, bearing in mind his uncomfortable fixation on the prospect of Marcs daughters fashion career,