The gardener is not always the murderer. Sometimes he’s also the corpse, as retiree Angela realizes when her pug discovers a body in the Kleinfreudenstadt cemetery, in the tranquil Uckermark region. The dead man is buried head first in the earth with only his legs sticking out. The murder suspects all belong to two warring undertaker families. There’s a dubious managing director, a prim accountant, a sensitive eulogist, a Satanist and a cultivated stonemason. The latter not only shares Angela’s love of Shakespeare; the old man also still looks like a French film star. Will Angela fall for his rugged charm? And what does her husband, Achim, think about it? In David Safier’s second case featuring the expert detective Miss Merkel, Mord auf dem Friedhof [Miss Merkel – Murder in the Cemetery] the ex-Chancellor faces tricky problems in her private life, too. Illustrator Olf will accompany the reading with delightful live drawings.