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in This Auspicious Literary Crime Debut, An Inexperienced Homicide Detective Struggles Amid The Lawlessness Of A Post-wwii 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. publishers Weekly schmidtke's Reading Of Steinhauer's Debut Is Rich With Subtle Nuance, But His Portrayal Of The Actual Characters' Voices, Which Are Rarely Graced With Anything Resembling An Eastern European Accent, May Strike Listeners As Off-key. Set In A Rubble-strewn, Unnamed Eastern European Country In 1948, This Intrigue Focuses On 22-year-old Emil Brod, A Rookie Homicide Detective For The People's Militia Who Seems To Be Up Against The World. His Department Thinks He Is A Spy, And Treats Him With Utter Scorn And Malevolence. He Is Not Even Given A Gun, And Has To Take Public Transportation For His Investigations. However, Not Unlike An Eastern Dirty Harry, B