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A review by gagnedouze
Blackout by Simon Scarrow
5.0
An excellent and entertaining thriller from Simon Scarrow. I am fascinated with everything related to WW2 and the setting is slightly different to the norm, so I was excited to start this.
Set just before Christmas, in the deep winter freeze of 1939 - 3 months after the invasion of Poland - Berliners believe the war will be over soon and peace restored, however, the capital is under a blackout. A perfect time for crime.
We meet the Kripo inspector, Horst Schenke and his mission is to find the killer of a party official's wife. This would be difficult in normal times but Berlin is blacked out and political implications are rife. Schenke is not a Nazi Party member and he dodges suspicions perilously as he tries to solve the case. Then a second murder takes place, eerily similar to the first. Are they linked? Chief of the Gestapo, Muller, has ordered Schenke to stop the murders before they can even think about having a Christmas.
Highly recommended.
Set just before Christmas, in the deep winter freeze of 1939 - 3 months after the invasion of Poland - Berliners believe the war will be over soon and peace restored, however, the capital is under a blackout. A perfect time for crime.
We meet the Kripo inspector, Horst Schenke and his mission is to find the killer of a party official's wife. This would be difficult in normal times but Berlin is blacked out and political implications are rife. Schenke is not a Nazi Party member and he dodges suspicions perilously as he tries to solve the case. Then a second murder takes place, eerily similar to the first. Are they linked? Chief of the Gestapo, Muller, has ordered Schenke to stop the murders before they can even think about having a Christmas.
Highly recommended.