Smoke over Berlin

Summer of 1944, Berlin is being bombed day by day by the Allies, yet the work of the criminal police has not been canceled. A married couple is murdered (he is a well-known doctor, she was involved, let's say, in racial issues), and the brilliant criminologist Hugo Fischer is assigned to investigate and close the case — preferably as soon as possible. As soon as he begins, the police discover the body of a journalist, a friend of the murdered woman, and then a group of children from the Hitler Youth dies on their way to a patriotic excursion. The more questions Hugo Fischer asks, the clearer it becomes to him that all these events are interconnected. Unfortunately, he does not know how to work poorly; during the investigation, he learns too much that he should not know, and the questions do not diminish. Why does his immediate superiors insist so much that the double murder was committed merely due to adultery, and obstruct the investigation at every turn? What strange friendships did the murdered doctor have, and what exactly was his wife involved in? And by the way, what does the monastery and the circus have to do with it? Meanwhile, among the higher echelons of the Reich, an assassination attempt on Hitler is being prepared, and Hugo Fischer, who is deeply engrossed in his investigation, has no relation to the brewing conspiracy, but hides completely different, though no less dangerous secrets, which already arouses keen interest from the Gestapo... Oriana Ramunno's detective thrillers are based on her in-depth research on Germany during World War II and the Holocaust. «Smoke over Berlin» is a continuation of her bestseller «The Boy Who Drew Shadows», an atmospheric, authentic story that will feature tense intrigue and genuine drama, human courage, animal horror, but also, strangely enough, hope. For the first time in Russian!