Landkrimi - Schnee von gestern

A male corpse is floating in Lake Triestach near Lienz in East Tyrol. According to the autopsy, Konrad Kofler, Tyrolean State Councillor for the Environment, had very little blood in his drink and apparently drowned. Kofler was on his way to a side valley in East Tyrol, to Inner Ainöd, after an appointment with the finance councillors of all the provinces, but he never arrived there. Chief Inspector Martin Steiner (32, charming model athlete and occasionally somewhat naïve philanthropist) and Chief Inspector Melanie Grandits (36, divorced Burgenlander with an above-average IQ and slightly undercooled sense of humor) have a case on their hands that is initially not at all certain to be a murder case - and when it turns out that Schett didn't just fall into the lake drunk, but was already dead when he was thrown into Lake Triestach, things get really tedious. The investigation first leads Martin, and later Melanie, to Inner Ainöd, an eccentric and rough village community where the clocks seem to run differently, a community that has long been struggling to keep up with the times before the last inhabitants move away.
The story is more than just a murder case. It strikes at the heart of the Alps, touching on the living conditions and the future of the inhabitants of its valleys. A story about loneliness, snow cannons and old guilt.