Lily White

All these years on, bouquets of white lilies-of-the-valley are laid in a Belgrade street, where a small Romani boy was beaten to death by two youths. One of the attackers was apprehended and imprisoned, while the other was allowed to flee. After twenty-five years on the run, he returns to Belgrade to confront his past. Days later his corpse is found floating in the Danube. After a cursory investigation the police declare it to have been suicide and close the case. But dead man's lawyer and the criminologist Milena Lukin begin an investigation of their own. Soon they stumble upon a clue which leads them into the darkest recesses of Serbian politics, and to the root of a murder which shaped the fate of a country. Set in Belgrade, a city of flux between East and West, Lily White is a complex and riveting new case for Milena Lukin that once again will take her to the dark heart of Serbia's past.