As a city turns against itself, a killer lies in wait ... After the Great War, Germany remains a country rocked by confllict. In the late 1920s the Nazis are creeping into positions of authority and Munich's police department is no exception. Insepktor Axel Berg of Mordkommission - Munich's newly formed homicide squad - deals mostly with routine deaths but when he's called to investigate the grisly murder of a young society wife, he is immediatly thrown into a web of dangerous intrigue. -- back cover.