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Unspeakable Prayers by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUNSPEAKABLE PRAYERS is the story of nineteen year-old Lodzi Ashstein taken to Treblinka in 1942 and forced by the Nazis to help destroy Jews. Watch a beaten and broken man survive against all odds. Later in life the captain of the SS Nazi guards is murdered. The Holocaust survivor Lodzi is charged with the murder and a trial ensues... -
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Dead of Night by Simon Scarrow
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs Germany strangles under the tight grip of the Nazi Party, the frozen winter of 1940 brings even more reasons to fear the dark in the crackling new WWII crime novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow – perfect for fans of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Trilogy, Robert Ludlum, Andrew Gross, and William Christie… One freezing night in 1940 Berlin, an SS doctor and his wife return from...Categorized as:
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Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsMGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken... -
![A Thousand Devils by Frank Goldammer, Steve Anderson]()
A Thousand Devils by Frank Goldammer, Steve Anderson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA disturbing murder reveals a high-stakes conspiracy among the ruins of postwar Dresden.Two years after the firebombing that devastated the historic East German city, the suffering continues in the throes of a brutal winter. The wary and exhausted citizens scramble to survive, wolf packs of orphans scavenge for food, and Detective Max Heller is called to the scene of a savage murder...Categorized as:
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![A Lonely Death by Charles Todd]()
A Lonely Death by Charles Todd
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“Todd’s Ian Rutledge mysteries are among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days.”—Washington PostCritics have called Charles Todd’s historical mystery series featuring shell-shocked World War One veteran Inspector Ian Rutledge “remarkable” (New York Times Book Review), “heart-breaking” (Chicago Tribune), “fresh and original” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)... -
![A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr]()
A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBerlin, March, 1943. A month has passed since the stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Though Hitler insists Germany is winning the war, commanders on the ground know better. Morale is low, discipline at risk. Now word has reached Berlin of a Red massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. If true, the message it would send to the troops is clear: Fight on or risk certain death...Categorized as:
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In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke...Categorized as:
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The Enemy at Home by Kevin O'Brien
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs World War II rages overseas, a serial killer preys on women working in Seattle’s factories in this provocative blend of vivid, richly detailed historical fiction and taut suspense.1943, Seattle. While raging war reshapes the landscape of Europe, its impact is felt thousands of miles away too... -
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Madness in the Ruins by John A. Connell
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA mutilated body. No witnesses. The only clue, a message, “Those who I have made suffer will become saints and they shall lift me up from hell.” Winter, 1945. Munich is in ruins, and a savage killer is stalking the city.U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins enforces the law in the American Zone of Occupation. This post is his last chance to do what he loves most—being a homicide detective...Categorized as:
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![Some Murders in Berlin by Karen Robards]()
Some Murders in Berlin by Karen Robards
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA serial killer on the loose. A profiler with a hidden past. A world at war.Trust is a luxury no one can afford.September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women... -
![Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr]()
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKnowing New York Times -bestselling author Philip Kerr's delight in subterfuge and obfuscation, readers can rest assure that nothing is what it seems when Bernie Gunther discovers war criminals living freely in Europe. It is 1956 and Bernie Gunther has a new name (Christoph Ganz), a clean passport, a chip on his shoulder, and a menial low-paying job in Munich...Categorized as:
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![The King's Justice by Susan Elia MacNeal]()
The King's Justice by Susan Elia MacNeal
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsCould a stolen violin be linked to a serial killer terrorizing London during World War II? Only secret agent extraordinaire Maggie Hope knows in this riveting mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Churchill's Secretary. London. December, 1942...Categorized as:
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![A Fine Summer's Day by Charles Todd]()
A Fine Summer's Day by Charles Todd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn a fine summer's day in June 1914, Ian Rutledge is planning to propose to a woman he deeply loves, despite hints from his family and friends that she may not be the most suitable choice for a policeman's wife. To the north, another man in love—a Scottish Highlander named Hamish MacLeod—asks his own sweetheart to marry him...Categorized as:
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![River of Darkness by Rennie Airth]()
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAs rural England slowly emerges from the sorrow of World War I, a particularly vicious attack on a household in a small Surrey village leaves five butchered bodies and no explanation for the killings. Sent by Scotland Yard to investigate is Inspector John Madden, a man still recovering from his own war experience and from the deaths of his wife and child...Categorized as:
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![City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin]()
City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice.. . . A nightmare political movement steadily gaining power. . . .This is 1922 Berlin... -
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The Air Raid Killer by Frank Goldammer
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs the Third Reich ends, a killer’s game begins.In the final days of the Third Reich, with the historic city of Dresden on the brink of destruction, terrifying rumors spread about the Fright Man, a demonic killer who exploited the cover of a nighttime air raid siren to mutilate and kill a young nurse...Categorized as:
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![The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty]()
The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Cold Cold Ground is the start of a major new series from Adrian McKinty, author of the acclaimed Falling Glass, Fifty Grand and the DEAD trilogy.Featuring Catholic cop Sean Duffy whose outsider status in the mostly Protestant RUC makes it as hard to do his job as the criminals he’s fighting, this is the start of a new series set in Troubles-era Belfast. A body is found in a burnt out car...Categorized as:
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![A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942 by Robert J. Harris]()
A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942 by Robert J. Harris
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world’s greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper.London, 1942. A killer going by the name of “Crimson Jack” is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888...Categorized as:
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Germania by Harald Gilbers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom international bestselling author Harald Gilbers comes the heart-pounding story of Jewish detective Richard Oppenheimer as he hunts for a serial killer through war-torn Nazi Berlin in Germania.Berlin 1944: a serial killer stalks the bombed-out capital of the Reich, preying on women and laying their mutilated bodies in front of war memorials. All of the victims are linked to the Nazi party... -
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Straight into Darkness by Faye Kellerman
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the latest entry in the Peter Decker-Rina Lazarus series, New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman takes us on an edge-of-the-seat journey to the past, and a city stalked by a killer so ruthless no one is safe-not even the police...Categorized as:
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The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe... -
![The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths]()
The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBrighton, 1950.When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl.The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old friend of Edgar’s. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men... -
![Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King]()
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDeath in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris...
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