Death in Breslau
by Marek Krajewski | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9781847245182 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9781847245182 Global Overview for this book
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From the front cover:
'An Eberhard Monk Investigation
'This thriller is as noir as they get'
C.J. Shüler, Independent'
From the back cover:
'''Death in Breslau isn't just an exciting mystery, it's the story of a lost Fatherland ... Wonderful'
Laura Wilson, Guardian
1933
The butchered bodies of a young woman and her maid are discovered in a train-carriage. The dreadful slashes to their stomachs are rendered even more awful by the bizarre presence of scorpions, writhing inside the wounds.
Assigned to the case, Criminal Counsellor Eberhard Mock and his assistantHerbert Anwaldt must search for the truth within a society in the malevolent rip of the Gestapo, where corrupt ministers torture Jewish merchants for false confessions and Freemasons protect their secrets with blackmail and violence.
In a city already drenched in fear, Mock and Anwaldt's hunt for the killer leads them to the time of the Crusaders, an era when secret sects practiced ritual murder.
'A stylish, intelligent and original addition to the genre'
Henry Hitchings, Financial Times'
This is a trade paperback edition from Maclehouse Press, published in 2008. The book was originally published in Polish in 2006.
I'm not at all familiar with this author, but I wanted to buy a Polish book when I was in Poland and this one sounds very interesting. Will read and then maybe ring later.
I bought this book at The American Bookstore in Arkadia mall in Warsaw, Poland on Monday, March 16th, 2009. It cost 35 zlotys. :-)
'An Eberhard Monk Investigation
'This thriller is as noir as they get'
C.J. Shüler, Independent'
From the back cover:
'''Death in Breslau isn't just an exciting mystery, it's the story of a lost Fatherland ... Wonderful'
Laura Wilson, Guardian
1933
The butchered bodies of a young woman and her maid are discovered in a train-carriage. The dreadful slashes to their stomachs are rendered even more awful by the bizarre presence of scorpions, writhing inside the wounds.
Assigned to the case, Criminal Counsellor Eberhard Mock and his assistantHerbert Anwaldt must search for the truth within a society in the malevolent rip of the Gestapo, where corrupt ministers torture Jewish merchants for false confessions and Freemasons protect their secrets with blackmail and violence.
In a city already drenched in fear, Mock and Anwaldt's hunt for the killer leads them to the time of the Crusaders, an era when secret sects practiced ritual murder.
'A stylish, intelligent and original addition to the genre'
Henry Hitchings, Financial Times'
This is a trade paperback edition from Maclehouse Press, published in 2008. The book was originally published in Polish in 2006.
I'm not at all familiar with this author, but I wanted to buy a Polish book when I was in Poland and this one sounds very interesting. Will read and then maybe ring later.
I bought this book at The American Bookstore in Arkadia mall in Warsaw, Poland on Monday, March 16th, 2009. It cost 35 zlotys. :-)