Marek Krajewski. (2012). Death in Breslau: An Inspector Mock Investigation. Melville House.

Marek Krajewski. 2012. Death in Breslau: An Inspector Mock Investigation. Melville House.

Marek Krajewski, Death in Breslau: An Inspector Mock Investigation. Melville House, 2012.

Marek Krajewski. Death in Breslau: An Inspector Mock Investigation. Melville House, 2012.

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     MAREK KRAJEWSKI was born in Wroclaw (formerly Breslau), Poland, on September 4, 1966. He is the author of five novels in the Breslau series, which have been translated into fourteen languages and won Poland's top literary and crime prizes. Krajewski is a former lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Wroclaw.
     
     DANUSIA STOK is the translator of the Inspector Mock series, Death in Breslau, as well as The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowsi.
     
     

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Introducing one of the most stylish and moody historic detective series ever: The Inspector Eberhard Mock Quartet

Occupied Breslau, 1933: Two young women are found murdered on a train, scorpions writhing on their bodies, an indecipherable note in an apparently oriental language nearby ...Police Inspector Eberhard Mock's weekly assignation with two ladies of the night is interrupted as he is called to investigate.

But uncovering the truth is no straightforward matter in Breslau. The city is in the grip of the Gestapo, and has become a place where spies are everywhere, corrupt ministers torture confessions from Jewish merchants, and Freemasons guard their secrets with blackmail and violence.

And as Mock and his young assistant Herbert Anwaldt plunge into the city's squalid underbelly the case takes on a dark twist of the occult when the mysterious note seems to indicate a ritual killing with roots in the Crusades ...

From the Hardcover edition.

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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review)
   • content: "This intelligent, atmospheric crime novel, which flashes forward to such events as the 1945 Dresden firebombing and the beginnings of the cold war, possesses a distinctly European, Kafkaesque sensibility."
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   • source: The Independent
   • content: "As noir as they get. This complex and atmospheric thriller will find many fans, who will eagerly await the rest of Krajewski's Breslau quartet."
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   • source: B&N Review
   • content: "Krajewski's wonderfully laconic style and his painterly descriptions of place and character tether even the most overwrought scenes to a palpable reality."
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   • source: New York Daily News
   • content: "Krajewski's thriller...will intrigue and compel readers to its end."
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   • source: The Times
   • content: "Atmosphere and piquant period detail saturate the pages, and push these books into the upper echelons of literary crime ... Krajewski's lacerating narrative performs the key function of the skilful novelist: providing an entree into a world far from our own."
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   • source: Financial Times
   • content: "Krajewski has Mankell's sharp eye for detail, but he has, too, a more sophisticated frame of reference that may intrigue fans of Umberto Eco and Boris Akunin...Death In Breslau is a stylish, intelligent and original addition to the canon."
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   • source: The Guardian
   • content: "Reminiscent of Georg Grosz...Death In Breslau isn't just an exciting mystery, it's the story of lost Fatherland...wonderful."
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   • source: The Daily Telegraph
   • content: "The city of Breslau is as much a character in this thriller as the parade of gothic loons that inhabit it...This addictive soup has an air of the burlesque about it."
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   • source: Independent on Sunday
   • content: "Krajewski relishes the period detail as takes us from bloody interrogation cells to Madame LeGoef's sweaty bordello ... above all you get the sense that Krajewski is enjoying teasing and tormenting us with numerous examples of the violent coming together of eroticism and the body-politic. In this respect, Death in Breslau is strongly reminiscent of Alain Robbe-Grillet's Repetition... What's haunting about Krajewski's book, however, is that the worst was yet to come."
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    • source: Criminal Element
    • content: "Atmospheric and uncompromising, it is noir with its dark underbelly fully exposed"
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      Starred review from July 2, 2012
      Set in 1933–1934 Breslau, Germany, this impressive first in Polish writer Krajewski’s quartet featuring Criminal Counsellor Eberhard Mock will please Philip Kerr fans. An emergency call late one night takes Mock from a house of ill repute he frequents to a train car, where the bodies of a 17-year-old girl, a baron’s daughter, and her governess have been found. Live scorpions writhe in the butchered girl’s entrails. The police detective has to proceed carefully in the rapidly shifting political climate, since the Nazis have already purged many of Mock’s colleagues and sent them to concentration camps. Meanwhile, Berlin dispatches another detective to assist with the case, Herbert Anwaldt. The troubled, alcoholic Anwaldt may hold the key to the solution of the horrific murders. This intelligent, atmospheric crime novel, which flashes forward to such events as the 1945 Dresden firebombing and the beginnings of the cold war, possesses a distinctly European, Kafkaesque sensibility.

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      September 1, 2012
      

      When a prominent baron's daughter and companion are brutally murdered in occult circumstances, Insp. Eberhard Mock of the Breslau police is called in to find the killer--or a suitable scapegoat. It is 1933, and the Gestapo are interested in using the murder to propagate anti-Semitism. Mock finds a suitable "murderer" but secretly reopens the case. Assisted by his alcoholic assistant, Herbert Anwaldt, Mock finds himself immersed in a centuries-old crime with clues in lost manuscripts, a phrase written in blood in an ancient Persian language, and a high-class brothel (with which Mock is well acquainted). VERDICT In the first of four planned volumes, Inspector Mock does not stand out among the characters until after the climax. Despite the lack of a charismatic head detective, this is an intricate crime novel at its best. Readers interested in erotic noir and international crime dramas will find this book enjoyable.--Jennifer Funk, McKendree Univ., Lebanon, IL

      Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Starred review from September 1, 2012
      It's 1933, and the Nazis have arrived in Breslau, further roiling the city's already overheated atmosphere of byzantine intrigue, wealth, scholarship, seediness, and pervasive licentiousness. Criminal Counsellor Eberhard Mock has been assigned a new assistant, whom Mock knows is a spy for the Gestapo. Then two women, one the daughter of a powerful Breslau baron, are brutally murdered, with live scorpions wriggling in their wounds. Mock's best clue is a bit of writing in what may be an ancient Semitic language, and he's under the figurative guns of the Nazis, the aggrieved baron (Mock's longtime patron), and the Freemasons. Mock is a compelling protagonist, part Hercule Poirot and part thug, who uses blackmail as a standard investigative tool. He also has a weakness for nubile young Jewish women and chess-playing prostitutes. Krajewski's characterization of the prewar Nazis as a murderous lot who spend most of their time scheming against each other and indulging their various libidinous kinks is intriguing, but what makes this novel a stunner is the detailed portrait of Breslau in the otherworldly, uberdecadent, interwar years. Linguist Krajewski teaches at the University of Wroclaw (nee Breslau) in Poland, and his Mock novels have been critical and popular successes in Europe. U.S. fans of international and historical crime fiction, especially devotees of Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series, will embrace Mock's politically and psychosexually bizarre turf.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)

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But uncovering the truth is no straightforward matter in Breslau. The city is in the grip of the Gestapo, and has become a place where spies are everywhere, corrupt ministers torture confessions from Jewish merchants, and Freemasons guard their secrets with blackmail and violence.

And as Mock and his young assistant Herbert Anwaldt plunge into the city's squalid underbelly the case takes on a dark twist of the occult when the mysterious note seems to indicate a ritual killing with roots in the Crusades ...

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