Violence snaps people like matchsticks. A dark crime novel set against the backdrop of Sosnowiec. Maciek Miłek went missing more than 30 years ago at a scout camp. The case was never solved, and the boy's body was never found. His brother grew up in the shadow of the tragedy, escaping a shattered family life into drugs and subculture wars. Everyone has long since stopped believing they will ever learn what really happened at that ill-fated camp. Sub-Inspector Laura Halber is recovering after the loss of her brother and finding peace in a new relationship. When she comes across human remains beneath the old house of a notorious murderer, she knows she will have to journey to places she never wanted to look into, following a trail that vanished long ago under a thick layer of lies and things left unsaid. Set in a superbly captured Zagłębie and Upper Silesia, Pleśń is a stifling, emotionally charged crime drama, the second instalment in the series featuring Sub-Inspector Laura Halber. This is no ordinary crime novel – it is a many-voiced story of rebellion and loneliness.