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The New York Times bestselling “master of mystery” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Faye Kellerman delivers a riveting novel set in 1920s Munich, a war-wounded city rocked by political agitationand stalked by a nameless, barbaric butcher.
Lustmord – the joyof murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the brutal slaying of abeautiful young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden. Homicideinspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime…and disturbed by theartful arrangement of the victim’s clothes and hair – a madman’sportrait of death.
Berg’s superiors demand quick answers and aquick arrest: a vagrant, the woman’s husband, anyone who can bedemonized will do. When a second body is discovered, the city eruptsinto panic, the unrest fomented by the wild-eyed, hate-mongeringAustrian Adolf Hitler and his Brownshirt party of young thugs.
Bergcan trust no one as he relentlessly hunts a ruthless killer, dodgingfaceless enemies and back-alley intrigue, struggling to bring a fiend tojustice before the country – and his life – veer straight intodarkness.
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