When Gunnar Martinson's Franchise Robots Go Crazy

In this second volume of the new franchise crime series - The Swiss Franchise Detectives - Lars Van de Velde is called to the Zug headquarter of the Happy People, a fitness franchise. It relies heavily on robotics and artificial intelligence, but is being blackmailed. Obviously, not all franchisees act in accordance with the system. During his investigations, with his assistant Morita Miramoto, in Berlin and Hamburg (Germany) as well as Unterägeri and Zug (Switzerland), Lars has to experience first-hand how robots can help, but also endanger human lives. The main protagonists Loretta Lombardi and Lars Van de Velde are always on the case when black sheep appear in the franchise economy. The multicultural investigators and their colorful team of assistants solve mysterious cases and fight for the good in franchising - with wit, humor and physical commitment. An entertaining crime-franchise.

Veronika Bellone left her native hometown Berlin shortly after graduating in economics and has lived in Switzerland ever since. Franchising has shaped her live. She has worked as a franchise manager, teaches franchising at universities, advices customers with her own franchise consultancy in Zug and writes specialist and non-fiction books about franchising, among other things.