This book is the second in Kerr’s Trilogy titled Berlin Noir, and picks up a few years after the first book. Set in 1938, as Hitler continues to lay the groundwork for his master plan, Bernie Gunther and other Berliners, like the rest of Europe, wonder when the war will officially begin. At the command of the head of Berlin’s Criminal Police department, and the highest ranks of Nazi government, Gunther reluctantly leaves his thriving private practice to return to the police force. His mission is to find the person who is ritualistically raping and murdering Aryan girls from nice, middle-class families. As he works at solving the murders, he is also finishing up a case from his private practice in which he must retrieve the love letters one rich man wrote to another rich man. As usual, Kerr blends the cases smoothly and adds a good dose of suspense to a dark glimpse into a city and its history.
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