Petey's Fiction Review

Straight into Darkness

by Faye Kellerman

In 1929 Munich, Germany, the population grows restive in the face of political upheaval. A pall of uncertainty hangs over the city—the country—and, increasingly, the police are becoming ineffectual in dealing with everyday crime. German citizens are taking the first steps along a path that leads straight into darkness.

When the beautiful young wife of a prominent citizen is brutally murdered and her body dumped in the picturesque English Garden, homicide inspector Axel Berg is assigned the task of bringing her killer to justice. Berg's superiors want the crime solved quickly to avert panic in the already troubled city.

Soon, another body is found, and then another, and Berg comes to believe that lustmord—the thrill of killing—is the motive. With the tenacity of a pit bull, he investigates a long list of suspects, unaware that his discovery of the killer's true identity will lead him straight into darkness.

Bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman is the author of the thriller Moon Music, historical novel The Quality of Mercy, and the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels. She and husband Jonathan Kellerman were cowriters of the novel Double Homicide. Faye and her family divide their time between California and New Mexico.

To paraphrase the words of Faye Kellerman's son, Jesse (Sunstroke), "She's too busy running the world to put up a Web site." Visit her husband Jonathan's Web site instead. www.jonathankellerman.com

Review by Phil Hanson

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