The Bridge of Sighs (Audiobook)

from addunn3

This is a period mystery occurring after the second world war in the Eastern Block. A young detective comes up against the corrupt politics of the post war era.

from aplaine

This book is grim and gritty, but I liked the young detective and his love story.

from BillPilgrim

This is Steinhauer's first book. It is part of series of five books describing this part of the world after WW2, each set in a subsequent decade. This one is set in 1948. Noir-ish novel of nefarious doings in a fictional Soviet-controlled country in post-World War II Eastern Europe. Life is hard....

from MinaIsham

-- Although I don't comprehend Eastern European politics I appreciate BRIDGE OF SIGHS by American author Olen Steinhauer. Crime novel contains murders, blackmail, & romance. Protagonist Emil Brod is a rookie homicide detective. He & bad guys search for photograph/s with incriminating evidence. Ev...

from gypsysmom

A police procedural set in an unnamed Eastern Bloc country a few years after the second World War this book promised better than it delivered. The narrator should share some of the blame for that as he had a strange undramatic way of delivering the words but also the plot was lacking. Emil Brod i...