Dangerous connections:
After the birthday party of Leopold's girlfriend Erika Haller at Café Heller, the womanizer Eberhard Aichholzer is found strangled in his room in the Hotel Floridus next door - with an exit bag over his head. Some of Erika's friends who stayed at the hotel were just as much a suspect as a few other hotel guests. In this complicated case, Leopold searches for the perpetrator, although the police invite Erika to cooperate rather than him.

Hermann Bauer
was born in Vienna in 1954. He spent thirty important years of his life in the Floridsdorf district. While still at school, he began to take an interest in billiards, tarot and the nearby café, Café Fichtl, whose regular Bauer stayed for a long time. From 1983 to early 2019, he taught German and English at BHAK Vienna 10. He participated in 13 performances of the theater group in his school. When Herman Bauer married his wife Andrea in 1993, he left his home district for her sake. In 2008 he published his first crime novel »Fernwehträume«, followed by twelve other thrillers about the fictional Floridsdorfer Café Heller and his head waiter Leopold. “Grillparzerkomplott” is the author's 13th coffee house thriller.