On New Year's Eve, Taras Birsa, senior crime investigator at the Ljubljana Police Directorate, is on his way home from skiing on Mount Vogel above Lake Bohinj. Driving though a snowstorm, he comes across a girl who has discovered the body of a young woman in the river. Who is the victim? Who is the murderer? Was the perpetrator some crazy loner or was the unidentified woman eliminated as part of a larger plot?
The Lake, award-winning Tadej Golob's best-seller, has changed the way fiction is written and read in Slovenia. It has succeeded in intriguing a wide audience and managed to unify literary critics. The novel is set in recognizable surroundings around Slovenia - the picturesque Lake Bohinj and the daily routine of the capital, Ljubljana. The protagonist is a model family man and a police inspector with a reputation. He is also a former mountaineer and a sworn recreational sportsman, sometimes secretive, sometime impulsive, always thoughtful and amusing.
