title: The Checkpoint, Berlin Detective Series
author: Gwynn, Michele E.
description: Welcome to The Checkpoint, Berlin Detective Series; your passport to a world of dark passion, international crime, and ever-present danger. I've read Exposed... twice now. I read it back to back, the way you'd listen to your favourite song. There's something about it - the pace, the throbbing tempo - that made it genuinely unputdownable to me. ~ Read Freely's Book of the Month Review (April 2020)An easy flowing, engrossing, and gripping tale...Steamy, passionate, and tasteful, just as it should be. A good plot and cast where even supporting characters come alive in their own way. ~ Reader's Favorite Review from Award-Winning and Bestselling Author K.J. Simmill (Exposed: The Education of Sarah Brown)The story is well written, artfully recalling a darker age of Russian agents and secret plots... ~ Aurora Dawn (The Making of Herman Faust)Exposed: The Education of Sarah Brown: A lonely young woman sets out to explore the world far from her small Texas town, but her trip of a lifetime turns into a nightmare fast! When a teenage boy goes missing, Sarah is pulled into a deadly game of revenge sparking an international manhunt across western Europe.The Evolution of Elsa Kreiss: Once Berlin's premiere dominatrix, newly graduated rookie cop Elsa Kreiss lands on the radar of a sadistic Russian billionaire as a case of three missing girls unfolds in this gripping crime thriller.The Redemption of Joseph Heinz: The Kommissar is back and going rogue! A new clue on a cold case, one that has haunted Heinz and nearly cost him his career, leads the determined detective to a warehouse in St. Petersburg...and to the dangerous leader of the bratva known throughout the criminal underworld as the butcher. With his wedding to his partner and love of his life, Birgitta Mahler approaching, Heinz seeks to find redemption and solve the case. If he succeeds, he'll make it to the church on time. If he fails, he'll arrive in a box!The Making of Herman Faust (A Page Turner Awards Finalist 2021 for Screenplay/Book Adaptation Needed): 1988 - For rookie officer Herman Faust, a routine, late night traffic stop turns into the apprehension of a high priority defector, one with ties to the Soviet bio-weapons program Obolensk. As secrets are revealed, Faust is drawn in deeper putting his family in danger and the western world at risk of a deadly contagion launched as a last-ditch attack by a desperate and declining cold war Axis power.