Grand Central Publishing
August 2005
On Sale: August 22, 2005
Featuring: Peter Decker; Rina Lazarus
432 pages ISBN: 0446530409 EAN: 9780446530408 Hardcover 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.