Wolf Haas Books in Order

After leaving the police, Simon Brenner investigates an elderly American couple found frozen on an Alpine ski lift. Their wealthy son-in-law owns the lift and stands to inherit, drawing the new private investigator into a case filled with evasions and local power.

Human bones turn up among the remains at a popular Austrian chicken restaurant. When private investigator Simon Brenner arrives, the woman who hired him has disappeared, leaving him to question silent staff as further gruesome discoveries accumulate.

Former detective Simon Brenner takes an ambulance job in Vienna, hoping to escape police work. Rival emergency services are competing fiercely, but an alarming pattern of deaths pulls him into an investigation where commercial hostility becomes something far more dangerous.

A contentious interview with a fictional version of the author gradually reveals a love story. At its center is a man who remembers fifteen years of weather in an Alpine village, where a childhood romance and a fatal accident still haunt him.

Simon Brenner’s quiet new job chauffeuring a toddler ends when she disappears during a gas-station stop. Fired and drawn back into detective work, he investigates threats surrounding her powerful parents while a growing number of deaths complicates the kidnapping.

Waiting for an electrician, Franz Escher reads about imprisoned mafia informant Elio Russo. Elio, fearing his impending release, reads about Franz in turn, drawing their mirrored stories into an increasingly tangled mystery where each narrative reshapes the other.