<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The news of his mother's death finds the writer in Budapest and offers the perfect time to open a black box of family mementos leading to an unravelling of multi-layered stories and an investigation into the everyday life of a time that no longer exists.&nbsp;</strong><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Investigator&nbsp;</em><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>contains everything that has made the author so successful in his homeland: a perfect sense for detail linguistic precision a brilliantly polished style. While the novel starts as the searching for a lost mother it becomes a story about a country and a people who no longer exist; an elegy for Yugoslavia as well asa family.</strong></p><p></p>