The Bridge of Sighs

by Steinhauer, Olen
5 out of 5 Customer Rating
ISBN: 9780312326012
Availability:
$9.49
Used - Trade Paperback - 9780312326012
Pickup at HPB West Lane Avenue Out of stock at HPB West Lane Avenue Check other stores
FREE
Ship to Me
$3.99

Overview

In this auspicious literary crime debut from New York Times bestselling author of The Tourist, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a post-WWII Eastern European city.

It's August, 1948, three years after the Russians "liberated" this small nation from German Occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capital's rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod, an eager young man who spent the war working on a fishing boat in Finland, finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the People's Militia.

The victim in Emil's first case is a state songwriter, but the evidence seems to point toward a political motive. He would like to investigate further, but even in his naivete, he realizes that the police academy never prepared him for this peculiar post-war environment, in which his colleagues are suspicious or silent, where lawlessness and corruption are the rules of the city, and in which he's still expected to investigate a murder. He is truly on his own in this new, dangerous world.

The Bridge of Sighs launches a unique series of crime novels featuring a dynamic cast of characters in an ever-evolving landscape, the politically volatile terrain of Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century.

The Bridge of Sighs is a 2004 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Steinhauer, Olen
  • ISBN: 9780312326012
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.24 x 0.76
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2004

Customer Reviews