A Trace of Smoke
In this brilliant historical mystery, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Cantrell illuminates an oft-neglected corner of history--the life of a singular woman at the dawn of the Third Reich. It's 1931. Crime reporter Hannah Vogel walks through Berlin's Hall of the Unnamed Dead searching for stories in photos of unidentified murder victims. When she sees her brother's picture among the corpses, she must hide her shock and grief. She's loaned his identity to Jewish friends fleeing the country, and the authorities can't discover that he's dead. She must investigate the murder herself. Diving into the glitzy cabaret where her brother sang leads her from Berlin's seedy underbelly to the to