Children of Wrath: A Novel Willi Kraus Series, 2 Paperback Paul Grossman

from amcreech

Willi Kraus is one of the few Jewish policmen in Berlin, post World War I. As such, he is treated as a kind of a third class citizen. After finding a bag of bones that are determined to be a bag of children's bones, he is determined to solve the case and bring and end to the wrath of the serial k...

from judithrs

Children of Wrath. Paul Grossman. 2012. A few years ago, I downloaded this author's first book, Sleepwalkers. Willie Kraus is a WWWI hero and police detective noted for his ability to solve serial murders in 1929 Berlin. That he is Jewish has never been a real problem but it slowly becomes one fo...

from Bettesbooks

The decadence and anti-Semitism of post-WWI Germany is not surprising and yet is appalling. It is a subject that is difficult to read. It is a subject that is impossible to enjoy. Woven into a mystery, my preferred genre, does not make it more palatable. 104

from sprocto

I got Paul Grossman's first book through Early Reviewers and was very excited for this one to be published. In addition to the mystery plot unfolding there is a second, equally fascinating story of the unfolding history of Germany in the 1930's. I will be happy to read more!