The Confession by Olen Steinhauer

The Confession by Olen Steinhauer

From the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist, The Confession is a fantastic follow-up to Olen Steinhauer's brilliant debut, The Bridge of Sighs, and it guarantees to advance this talented writer on his way to being one of the premiere thriller writers of a generation.

Eastern Europe, 1956: Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar, who is a proletariat writer in addition to his job as a state militia homicide detective, is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife, whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his colleagues, and frustrated by writer's block, Ferenc's attention is focused on his job. But his job is growing increasingly political, something that makes him profoundly uncomfortable.

When Ferenc is asked to look into the disappearance of a party member's wife and learns some unsavory facts about their lives, the absurdity of his position as an employee of the state is suddenly exposed. At the same time, he and his fellow militia officers are pressed into service policing a popular demonstration in the capital, one that Ferenc might rather be participating in.

These two situations, coupled with an investigation into the murder of a painter that leads them to a man recently released from the camps, brings Ferenc closer to danger than ever before--from himself, from his superiors, from the capital's shadowy criminal element.

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.