Straight Into Darkness, Faye Kellerman
Straight Into Darkness, Faye Kellerman
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Straight Into Darkness

Author: Faye Kellerman

Narrator: Paul Michael

Unabridged: 14 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2005


Synopsis

As night descends, a killer awaits…

With ten consecutive New York Times bestsellers, Faye Kellerman is truly a "master of mystery" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Now she turns her acute eye on 1920s Munich, a war-wounded city rocked by political agitation and stalked by a nameless, barbaric butcher.

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.

About Faye Kellerman

Mystery author, Faye Kellerman, not only writes amazing, best-selling mysteries, but is married to famous author, Jonathan Kellerman. The pair of authors is the only married couple to have been on The New York Times best seller list at the same time. An awesome accomplishment for sure. And, to make it even better, their oldest child, Jesse Kellerman is a best-selling novelist and award winning playwright. Their youngest, a daughter, Aliza Kellerman, co-wrote Prism, a novel for young adults, with her mother. Keeping it in the family.

Faye Kellerman's early history is a very interesting one. She actually received a B.A. in mathematics, and then earned her Doctorate of Dental Surgery. Even though she fully intended to be a dentist, she never practiced even one day in the dental profession. She first became a housewife and mother, then developed her writing career.

Faye Kellerman has well over twenty million copies of her novels in circulation. The Decker/Lazarus thrillers are among her most successful works. They include such titles as: Sacred and Profane; Milk and Honey; Day of Atonement; Justice; Prayers for the Dead, and many others. She has also received awards for her collection of short stories. As if all that writing and creating were not enough, she also has hobbies of gardening, sewing, and jogging. She has four children, and lives in Los Angeles and Santa Fe.

Upon being asked how an educated Dentist becomes an accomplished, award winning author, she said it was... a desire for justice, a suspicious nature, an overactive imagination, and of course, a penchant for the bizarre.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cara on July 31, 2012

I just finished reading this this morning. Wow. I've read everything else Faye Kellerman and wasn't sure I was in the mood for something dark and heavy. But I wanted to know what happened to Rina's grandmother in Munich, and since she decided not to fully find out the answer... I had to go ahead and......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on August 24, 2019

A great mystery set in Munich in the 1930's and perhaps a cautionary tale for the present.......more

Goodreads review by Marc on August 14, 2017

This is a book well worth the reading. It is a detective story set in Munich during the early years of Hitler's rise to power. It involves the overstretched homicide department with its staff as divided as Germany itself over the rise of the Nazis having to deal with a serial killer as anti Jewish m......more

Goodreads review by Ruthiella on July 22, 2017

Set in 1929 Munich, Straight in to Darkness is a bit of a departure from Kellerman’s usual fare (she is very well known for her popular Rina Lazarus/Peter Decker contemporary mystery series (20+ books and still going strong). Straight in to Darkness is both a mystery and historical fiction. The prot......more

Goodreads review by Anne Marie on May 29, 2017

When I first started reading this book, I wasn't sure if it was a comedy! But I realized due to the time period (1920's Germany) the police department wasn't up to par as it should have been. Motor cars were just starting to be used and with other powers (Hitler) coming to power the police seemed li......more


Awards

  • AudioFile Earphones Award