Trandafirul alb

At midnight, a murder shatters the peace at Maria Nistor’s guesthouse. Nistor is a teacher. At first, no one finds a clear motive. The crime upsets the guests’ lives and sense of order. A sleuth must find the killer and restore that order. Several people could have done it.

Constantin Chirita’s Trandafirul alb is a crime novel. It draws on psychology, the study of the mind. It also draws on psychoanalysis and medicine. The book asks more than who did the crime. It looks at how violence breaks the flow of daily life. It is the first book in the series Trilogia in alb.