The Bridge of Sighs - (Yalta Boulevard Quintet) by Olen Steinhauer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this auspicious debut, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a post-World War II eastern European city.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this auspicious literary crime debut from <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Tourist</i>, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a post-WWII Eastern European city. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/><i>The Bridge of Sighs</i> 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. <p/><i>The Bridge of Sighs</i> is a 2004 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A novel of intense vitality... Lots of humor, lots of threads and an ever-deepening mystery that is unique and a fine start for a very promising new author." --<i>J. Robert Janes, author of Dollmaker</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>OLEN STEINHAUER, the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of ten previous novels including <i>The Tourist</i>, is a Dashiell Hammett Award winner, a two-time Edgar award finalist, and has also been shortlisted for the Anthony, the Macavity, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and the Barry awards. Raised in Virginia, he lives in New York and Budapest, Hungary. Visit OlenSteinhauer.com.
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