Karen Robards

Complex thriller in 1943 Berlin!

Heartstopping thriller set in Berlin in 1943. Denmark had just surrendered to the Nazis when Professor Elin Lund, a forensic psychiatrist, from Copenhagen is directed by Nazi command to go to Berlin to investigate a serial killer. Blonde women have been found murdered in identical situations.
Elin can’t disobey. She’s hiding a secret, or two. She takes two fellow academics with her as consultants, members of the Danish Resistance, who need to get out of Denmark. Pia is a photographer and Jens is a brilliant mathematician. They are members of the Danish Resistance.
She is to work the stern CID detective, Kriminalinspektor Kurt Schneider.
It turns out Kurt’s a man with his own set of secrets. I really came to appreciate the man Kurt is.
Convinced the killer has some attachment to the police, Elin methodically follow all the evidence to build a picture of their man.
Elin has always hated being in Berlin. Her mother, a prominent psychiatrist, had been killed in a hit and run accident when Elin had been a young girl. (More revelations!) Going back there was hard, leaving her son was harder. The search for the seriously deranged killer becomes more dangerous as the pair infiltrate his lair and upset his regime. Elin receives threatening notes from the killer. The pair are beset on all sides. It turns out the killer seems to be targeting young women of the Lebensborn Society—women who will give birth to pure Aryan babies.
Add to this Kurt had displeased General Reinhard Heydrich, part of Hitler’s the heirachy, He'd been part of the bloody, failed invasion of Russia, Operation Barbarossa. Kurt had returned wounded by shrapnel blasts and with and shell shock. Elin is made very nervous by General Haupt who’d requested her presence.
The developing relationship between these two wounded people is a thing of delight.
A spine tingling thriller that leads into the jackals’ den that was the Berlin under the Third Reich.

A Harlequin Trade ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher.… (lisätietoja)

It’s Germany, 1943. The Third Reich rules, but cracks are appearing and its fall seems inevitable. Now toss in a serial killer stalking the dark streets of Berlin and you have Karen Robards’ SOME MURDERS IN BERLIN. The gruesome killings draw profiling expert Dr. Elin Lund from occupied Copenhagen to the chaos of Berlin. Paired with homicide detective Kurt Schneider, who isn’t exactly welcoming, and a mandate from the highest reaches of the Reich, and Elia senses danger at ever turn. Why would Hitler himself take an interest in these murders? What secrets must Elin protect while attempting to identify a dangerous and elusive killer? Could failure result in her own death? SOME MURDERS IN BERLIN is what a historical thriller should be.

DP Lyle, award-winning author of the Jake Longly and Cain/Harper thriller series… (lisätietoja)