A new, exciting and entertaining crime series from the Swiss city of Zug. The Swiss franchise detectives Loretta Lombardi and Lars Van de Velde are always on the case when black sheep appear in the franchise economy. The multicultural investigators fight for justice with wit, humor and physical commitment, supported by a colorful team of assistants. An entertaining crime novel set in the franchise economy with plenty of Swiss ambience. The first case, The Disappearance of Alexander Schober, involves innovative bio-hacking and sustainable brother rooster chicks for a food franchise in Zug and Ascona/Ticino, as well as private and professional relationship entanglements.

Thomas Matla was born in Berlin. He studied social and business communication at the Berlin University of the Arts and graduated with a diploma. He has worked for advertising agencies in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Munich before moving to Switzerland to support Veronika's franchise consultancy in Zug. Together with Veronika he has published several specialist and non-fiction books.