#Review of The Bridge of Sighs

Despite a slow start that, for this #reader, continued until half of the novel, Olen Steinhauer has crafted a good story. He is an excellent writer, who entwines murder, espionage, and love into this post World War II tale. Located in a fictitious Soviet-bloc country, this first novel of five tells the story of Emil Brod, a newly minted Inspector for the People’s Militia. Each subsequent novel offers the story by different characters from the same People’s Militia station as Emil. Quite well-...