A Quiet Flame

Buenos Aires, 1950. After being falsely accused of war crimes, Bernie Guntherlike the Nazis he has always despisedhas been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Per government. But the tough, fast-talking ex-Berlin detective doesnt have the luxury of laying low. The local police pressure Bernie into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up gruesomely mutilated. Whats more, her murder just might be linked to a missing German bankers daughter and a long-unsolved case Bernie worked back in Berlin before the war. After all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentinas shores - state-licensed murderers and torturers - so why couldnt a serial killer be among them?

Softcover. English. Quercus. 2008. ISBN: 9781847245588. 413 pp. Good. Book No: 59237