Red Water by Jurica Pavičić

Red Water
by Jurica Pavičić

A woman disappears after a beach party, and the search for her reveals Croatia's complex history well beyond the fall of Communism.

Called The Mediterranean Flower for its beauty, Split has a complex history that is perhaps best explored within a mystery.

In 1989, beautiful Silva doesn't come home.

Young cop Gorki Sain discovers that she isn't what she seemed--she dabbled in drugs and dealt in heroin.

But Gorki soon finds himself out of a job as Yugoslavia plunges into a fratricidal war.

Silva's brother stubbornly continues the search amid the upheavals of Croatian society, from the fall of communism through the 1991-1995 war.

The former cop returns to solve the 30-year-old mystery in a different role, one less than ethically tied to toxic land speculation and corruption that comes with the tourist boom on the Dalmatian Coast.