#AUDIO BOOK READER NED SCHMITKE SERIES#

The plot wasn't unusually complex- it didn't need to be. I could smell the left over cabbage soup and see the grime on the windows. The characters are coarse, flawed, fat, and certainly human.

He shows you-not tells you, in layers until you can see their day old stubble and smell the vodka on their breath. He introduces a character, and then paints him with words. What hooked me, was Steinhauer's ability to add texture like a painter using a palette knife. 'Steinhauer captured post World War II Eastern Europe in this gritty novel about a rookie homicide investigator with the People's Militia, in an unnamed country behind the iron curtain.

#AUDIO BOOK READER NED SCHMITKE SERIES#

The Bridge of Sighs launches a unique series of crime novels featuring a dynamic cast of characters in an ever-evolving landscape, the politically volatile terrain of Eastern Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. He is truly on his own in this new, dangerous world. He would like to investigate further, but even in his naïveté he realizes that the police academy never prepared him for this peculiar post-war environment in which his colleagues are suspicious or silent, lawlessness and corruption are the rules of the city, and he’s still expected to investigate a murder.

The victim in Emil’s first case is a state songwriter, but the evidence seems to point toward a political motive. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod, an eager young man who spent the war working on a fishing boat in Finland, finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the People’s Militia. But the Red Army still patrols the capital’s rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. It’s August, 1948, three years after the Russians “liberated” this small nation from German occupation. In this auspicious literary crime debut, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a post–World War II Eastern European city.

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