Greed

Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces.

It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girls body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime.

Inher signature style, Jelinek chronicles the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the cruelties of everyday life.