A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell is based in Berlin in 1931. Hannah Vogel, a crime reporter heads to the police station to get a story and sees a picture of her brother in the hall of the unnamed dead. Hannah is then dragged into her brother Ernst's world where he was a cross dressing lounge siner and was associating with Nazis. Then, if there wasn't enough to worry about, there is a five-year-old boy named Anton who shows up on Hannah's doorstep claiming that Ernst is his father and Hannah his mother.
Hannah starts to investigate the death of her brother and finds secrets of sex scandals within the high ranks of the Nazi party that puts Anton and herself in grave danger. Cantrell transports you to 1930's Berlin with her vivid descriptions of a terrifying and profound time when nothing can be spoken and very few people can be trusted.
sounds very interesting to know that back then and even now things have not change!
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