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I was rating this much higher for about 2/3 of the book, but then it fell apart. There were times I didn't even know what was going on (and I can read, and like, weird shit). I don't know if this was due to the translation or plotting. It's seems too easy to blame the translator for a failure that extends for about a third of the book. (It was working fine before that.)
The set-up for the novel is fascinating. 1933, Breslau is in the first throes of the Nazi takeover, and local cop, Inspector Mo ...more
The set-up for the novel is fascinating. 1933, Breslau is in the first throes of the Nazi takeover, and local cop, Inspector Mo ...more
I love reading crime fiction from other countries, so I eagerly snapped up this first book of a Polish series featuring a police detective working in the German city of Breslau in the years leading up to World War II. As the city (including the police department) is carved up into fiefdoms representing different factions of German politics, the bodies of two women are found on a train. One of them is the teenage daughter of a prominent Baron, and with the murder pinned on a Jew, Inspector Mock s
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Aug 17, 2011
Steve Anderson
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Janet Whalen
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