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Cantrell, Rebecca
Cantrell, Rebecca
Signs Trace of Smoke (Forge $25), a First Mystery Club Pick set in 1931 Berlin with crime reporter Hannah Vogel. The author is making a trip here from Hawaii for our program.
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May 30, 2009 from 02:00 pm |
| Where | PP Scottsdale |
| Contact Name | Lorri Amsden |
| Contact Email | sales@poisonedpen.com |
| Contact Phone | 480 947 2974 |
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It's 1931 in Berlin and hardbitten crime reporter Hannah Vogel is nonetheless devastated to see a photo of her brother's body posted in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Ernst, a cross-dressing lounge singer at a seedy club, had many secrets, reams of lovers, and a penchant for trouble. But still….
Hannah delves into the city's underbelly to flush our his killer but the arrival of 5-year-old Anton on her doorstep claiming that Hannah is his mother and Ernst his father adds a new thread and leads to her probe of scandals in the ranks of the rising Nazi Party….
Is it a classic case of evil happening when good men do nothing? Or too little? There is so much of a similar vein loose in today's world, is it time to review the past? Along with Jonathan Rabb's marvelous 1930s Berlin novel Shadow and Light (Farrar Strauss $27 Signed), spring brings us Cantrell's take.
