The Bridge of Sighs Lib/E
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The Bridge of Sighs Lib/E by Olen Steinhauer
In this auspicious literary crime debut from New York Times bestselling author of The Tourist, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a post-WI Eastern European city.
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. 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. The Bridge of Sighs 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. The Bridge of Sighs is a 2004 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel.While on a Fulbright study in Romania, OLEN STEINHAUER was inspired to write his Eastern European crime series, which includes The Bridge of Sighs, The Confession, 36 Yalta Boulevard, Liberation Movements, and now Victory Square. The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, the Edgar Award for best first novel, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, and the Macavity Award were all shortlisted for The Bridge of Sighs. Liberation Movements was also a Edgar Award finalist. Steinhauer was born in Virginia and now resides in Budapest.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9780786193271 |
| Title | The Bridge of Sighs Lib/E |
| Release date | 2003-03-01 |
| Format | Audiobook Unabridged |
| Studio | Blackstone Pub |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Olen Steinhauer |
| Read by | Ned Schmidtke |