The Butchers of Berlin by Chris Petit. First edition 2016. Softcover. 482 pp.

The Butchers of Berlin

Berlin 1943. August Schlegel lives in a world full of questions with no easy answers. Why is he being called out on a homicide case when he works in financial crimes? Why did the old Jewish soldier with an Iron Cross shoot the block warden in the eye and then put a bullet in his own head? Why worry about such a case when the Jews are all being shipped out anyway? And why should Eiko Morgen, wearing the dreaded black uniform of the SS, turn up and say he has been assigned to work with Schlegel? Corpses, dressed with fake money, bodies flayed beyond recognition: are these routine murders committed out of rage or is someone trying to tell them something ...

First edition published 2016 by Simon & Schuster, London.

Condition: Good. Front page lightly worn.

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