STRAIGHE INTO DARKNESS

AS NIGHT DESCENDS,
A KILLER AWAKENS
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.