En caída libre - Rosa Ribas
In a manner that is becoming familiar with the series involving half-Spanish half-German Frankfurt police Commissioner Cornelia Weber, En caída libre (In Free Fall) opens with two apparently unrelated cases, a Spanish connection and new complications in the Commissioner's personal life. The prologue presents the situation of an airline cleaning lady Fatima Celik, dying after a fall down the stairway of a plane that has just arrived from Santiago, Chile. Although accidental there is a suspicion that drugs were hastily removed from her pocket by a colleague just after the fall. Cornelia's involvement with this case arises out of another death. As with the first book in the series, Entre dos aguas , it arises out of the Main river in the form of the dead dismembered body of a young woman, Nicole Eulenberg, weighted down with stones and washed up on the shore at Niederrad. There is a Spanish or Spanish language connection in both cases, suspicion being thrown on a flight from Chil...