Title: Straight into Darkness
Description: 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.
Subjects: War stories, Detective and mystery stories, Police, Serial murders, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Jewish fiction, Historical fiction, Police -- Germany -- Munich -- Fiction., Serial murders -- Fiction., M"Fiction, mystery & detective, general", Fiction, historical, general, Germany, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Serial murders, fiction, Serial murder investigation, National socialism, History
Places: Munich (Germany)
Time periods: 1929