Keynote
The second volume of the wonderfully
received crime series by Robert Małecki
with the police officers of X Archives,
Maria Herman and Olgierd Borewicz.
A full-blooded crime story where the police
officers also have to face their own
demons.

Selling Points
 The first part sold over sixteen thousand
copies and the film rights have been sold.
 Małecki is one of the most popular crime
writers in Poland, and all his previous
books have gone on to become bestsellers.
 A continuation of the charismatic and
expertly drawn protagonists, who have to
cope with their own past.
 Rights for film and TV adaptations of his
previous books have already been sold.
Description
There’s no darker nightmare than one in
which your own child dies. And what if it
isn’t a dream and you alone are to blame
for that death? The day Zuzia died in an
overheated car will always leave a mark on
the family. Burdened by the responsibility,
the little girl’s mother has a nervous
breakdown, and when it looks like she
has overcome the trauma, she vanishes
without trace.
Several years later, the Bydgoszcz team X
Archives reopen the case files. Everythingsuggests that they’re close to wrapping it
up. However. The police officers, wearied
by unbearably hot weather, suddenly
lose the trail, and the truth, concealed
in the shadow of those dark events, gets
out of hand. Maria Herman and Olgierd
Borewicz will have to solve the puzzle of
another vicious crime and not be deceived
by their own demons…

Target Market
Fans of crime fiction.
Lovers of classic police procedural stories.