Dance Palace

• The young FRG and a serial killer who stages his victims as saints 
  
• Inspector Oppenheimer investigates with an extraordinary team
  
• Part 8 of the award-winning historical crime series (Friedrich Glauser Prize, Prix Historia)
  
• Harald Gilber's total German-language print run: over 150,000 copies
• Previous translations into Czech, Danish, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese & Polish

Ein perfider Frauenmörder im Berlin der Nachkriegszeit: fesselnd, atmosphärisch und blendend recherchiert

Berlin, 1950: A young woman who was reported missing is finally found murdered, her body staged like an icon of a saint. The explosive story: she was having an affair with an American general. Was there a personal motive, was a "traitor to the people" to be punished, or were the Russians behind the murder? Inspector Oppenheimer and his sharp-witted new assistant Miss Murr are supported in the murky case by African-American witness Eugene Peters. But although the unlikely trio are working flat out to follow various leads, the investigation is not making much progress. Then the wife of a US officer disappears and the case comes to a dramatic head ...

"A brilliant debut. Gilbers makes Oppenheimer's fear and the moral concessions he makes palpable." Publishers Weekly 

"The historian Harald Gilbers once again demonstrates his skills and succeeds brilliantly in bringing the historical context to life." - Corriere della sera