J Lee Ready

Inner Victims: a World War II Murder Mystery J Lee Ready

Publisher Marketing: "Five Stars. This is a great read, which would make a really good movie. This is well worth reading if you like something that you can get your teeth into." Independent review by M. Dowden, London, UK. This book of 300 Kindle pages is an historical fiction murder mystery. In the ancient tunnels under the city of Luxembourg a boy is found murdered. Karl Pohl is the detective assigned to the case. There is a child killer out there, and he will kill again. Normally Pohl would have the power of the state behind him and the support of the local police and the people. But this is September 1944 and the country is under Nazi occupation. Pohl knows he will have no support from the Nazi state, because he is not a Nazi. And he soon learns he will get little support from the Luxembourg police, because he is a German. And he also learns he will get no support from the people, because of two little letters on his uniform. 'SS'. Pohl is also worried about his beautiful wife, who lives with him in the city. She has a secret, and it is enough to put her on the Gestapo's watch list, but not on their arrest list...at least not yet. He soon has a list of suspects, but who lined up these suspects for him? Pohl decides that someone is playing him. But who? The Gestapo? The Anti-Nazi Resistance? Pohl decides he has to break this impasse. If he can't get support from the Nazi state, can he get it from the resistance? But that would mean committing treason. And what if the killer is a member of the resistance? As the evidence points that way. There's another reason for urgency. The German front in France has collapsed, and the American Army is charging towards Luxembourg. They could be here any day, any hour. And when that happens the hunted killer will become the hunter. And Pohl will become the prey.