Straight into Darkness: A Novel

Faye Kellerman

Aug 2005 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

The New York Times bestselling "master of mystery" , Faye Kellerman delivers a riveting novel set in 1920s Munich, a war-wounded city rocked by political agitation and stalked by a nameless, barbaric butcher (Cleveland Plain Dealer).

Lustmord - the joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the brutal slaying of a beautiful young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime...and disturbed by the artful arrangement of the victim's clothes and hair - a madman's portrait of death.

Berg's superiors demand quick answers and a quick arrest: a vagrant, the woman's husband, anyone who can be demonized will do. When a second body is discovered, the city erupts into panic, the unrest fomented by the wild-eyed, hate-mongering Austrian Adolf Hitler and his Brownshirt party of young thugs.

Berg can trust no one as he relentlessly hunts a ruthless killer, dodging faceless enemies and back-alley intrigue, struggling to bring a fiend to justice before the country - and his life - veer straight into darkness.

Ratings and reviews

To me this was a good book. A little advanced and not good for any young reader. It was also a tiny bit difficult to follow. the last maybe 30 pages were full of suspense. Totally unsuspected ending. Full of betrayel.

this book has a very interesting plot and the ending make me who hard to cry cry for a day lol.....

Wow.....What a story!

About the author

Faye Kellerman is the author of twenty-six novels, including nineteen New York Times bestselling mysteries that feature the husband-and-wife team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. She has also penned two bestselling short novels with her husband, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, and has teamed up with her daughter Aliza to co-write a teen novel entitled Prism. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.