An incredibly gripping and gritty read. I thought it was a clever plot, with well developed and interesting characters. I was compelled to keep turning the pages. Three intertwined stories, a dark mystery made this an incredibly authentic story. Recommended!

I’m not much of a fan of thrillers at the best of times – and this wasn’t the best of times. Run-of-the-mill Cold War murder mystery which got sillier and sillier as the plot developed. It started quite promisingly with a girl’s body apparently fleeing into East Germany rather than away. There were some nice period details and forays into the working of the East German Police and the Stasi but not enough to make up for the ridiculous plot twists and turns which got more and more out of hand as the novel stumbled on to its unconvincing and melodramatic conclusion.