A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
the third Salzburg provincial whodunnit, a series of mysterious arson attacks has been instilling terror in a small community in Pongau for months. No one imagines that the arsonist is actually sixteen-year-old Sophie, the daughter of the village innkeeper.
