Grand Central Publishing
July 2006
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Featuring: Axel Berg
544 pages ISBN: 0446611506 EAN: 9780446611503 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
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.