description: As night descends, a killer awaits... With ten consecutive "New York Times" bestsellers, Faye Kellerman is truly a "master of mystery" ("Cleveland Plain Dealer"). Now she turns her acute eye on 1920s Munich, a war-wounded city rocked by political agitation and stalked by a nameless, barbaric butcher. Lustmord-the joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the brutal slaying of a beautiful young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime...and disturbed by the artful arrangement of the victim's clothes and hair -a madman's portrait of death. Berg's superiors demand quick answers and a quick arrest: a vagrant, the woman's husband, anyone who can be demonized will do. When a second body is discovered, the city erupts into panic, the unrest fomented by the wild-eyed, hate-mongering Austrian Adolf Hitler and his Brownshirt party of young thugs. Berg can trust no one as he relentlessly hunts a ruthless killer, dodging faceless enemies and back-alley intrigue, struggling to bring a fiend to justice before the country-and his life-veer straight into darkness.
language: English
title: Straight Into Darkness
titlecomplete: Straight Into Darkness
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Historical, Germany, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2451
places: Munich (München)
publisher: Books on Tape