you haven't read award winning novelist Rebecca Cantrell's Hannah Vogel series, you are missing out on an exceptional literary experience, Thisbook series with much anticipated hints of more to come takes place in the earlys and chronicles the hardships and atrocities that the people of Germany experience during Hitlers's rise to power.
Sometimes dark and foreboding, at other times, uplifting, Rebecca is a master at writing the backstory to a person or place, Living in Berlin, she was able to visit and research many of the places that still exist that appear in these books.
Starting with A Trace of Smoke, crime reporter Hannah Vogel discovers a photograph of her gay transvestite brother, Ernst, posted in the Hall of Unnamed Dead at the police department.
Investigating Ernst's death, Hannah uncovers the seedy underbelly of his cabaret lifestyle, She also encounters a five year old boy, Anton, who claims that Ernst is his father and that she, Hannah, is his mother.
On her search for Ernst's murderer, Hannah delves into the unsavory lifestyle of the Nazi Party, Hannah learns that Ernst is Anton's father, but it is not her brother, It is Ernst Rohm, the head of the Nazis' SA,
Second in the series is Night of Long Knives, which involves the return of Hannah and Anton to Germany afteryears of selfimposed exile.
Anton is kidnapped when their Zeppelin is diverted from Switzerland to Germany and Hannah must search for him, even at the risk of her own death.
With Hitler's orders to execute Rohm and his storm troopers, Hannah loses her chance to locate Anton, Hannah enlists the aid of her friends to help locate her son before the Nazis do as the Gestapo closes in,
Third in the series is A Game of Lies, Hannah returns to cover theBerlin Olympics, as a journalist for a Swiss paper.
She is also here as a part time spy, She is smuggling Nazi secrets out of Germany collected by her lover, Lars Lang, a member of the SS,
Fourth in the series is A City of Broken a Glass, Hannah is now in Poland covering the story of,deported Polish Jews, One deportee is the pregnant wife of her Jewish friend, Paul, Kidnapped by the SS, Hannah is taken back to Germany, During a rescue attempt by Lars and Anton, all three get trapped in Berlin, As they devise a means of escape just days before Kristalinacht the Night of Broken Glass, Hannah must also search for her friends daughter, Ruth.
She can't leave without knowing the child's fate,
Reading thisseries of books has cumulated into the most exhilarating and informative journey I have been on in a long while.
These books were superbly researched, If I had to venture a guess, I would say she liked doing research as much as Jim does she's too good at it! With a combination of real and fictional locations and people, the reader experiences a taste of Berlin that is mesmerizing.
You need to read these books, They will send you on a journey you will never forget, A bundle of the four books in the awardwinning Hannah Vogel mystery series by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Cantrell, which a female journalist solving crimes amid the darkening politics ofs Berlin A Trace of Smoke, A Night of Long Knives, A Game of Lies, A City of Broken Glass A few years ago Rebecca Cantrell quit her job, sold her house, and moved to Hawaii to write a novel because, at seven, she decided that she would be a writer.
Now she writes the award winning Hannah Vogel mystery series set in Berlin in thes, “A Trace of Smoke,” A Night of Long Knives, A Game of Lies, and A City of Broken Glass, She also co writes the Order of Sanguines series with James Rollins, starting with the upcoming
book: The Blood Gospel, And she writes the iMonster series as Bekka Black, including iDrakula and iFrankenstein, A faded pink triangle pasted on the wall of Dachau Concentration Camp and time in Berlin, Germany in thes inspired “A Trace of Smoke.
” Fluent in German, she received her high school diplo A few years ago Rebecca Cantrell quit her job, sold her house, and moved to Hawaii to write a novel because, at seven, she decided that she would be a writer.
Now she writes the award winning Hannah Vogel mystery series set in Berlin in thes, “A Trace of Smoke,” "A Night of Long Knives," "A Game of Lies," and "A City of Broken Glass, " She also co writes the Order of Sanguines series with James Rollins, starting with the upcoming book: "The Blood Gospel, " And she writes the iMonster series as Bekka Black, including "iDrakula" and "iFrankenstein, "A faded pink triangle pasted on the wall of Dachau Concentration Camp and time in Berlin, Germany in thes inspired “A Trace of Smoke.
” Fluent in German, she received her high school diploma from the John F, Kennedy Schule in Berlin and studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin and the Georg August Universität in Göttingen.
When she visited Berlin in the summer of, she was astounded to discover that many locations in her novel have been rebuilt and reopened in the last few years, including the gay bar El Dorado and the Mosse House publishing house.
Her short story “Coffee” will appear in the “Missing” anthology in February, Her screenplay “The Humanitarian” was a finalist at Shriekfest: The Los Angeles Horror/Sci fi Film Festival, Her screenplay “A Taste For Blood” was a finalist at the Shriekfest: The Los Angeles Horror/Sci fi Film Festival, As of this writing, she lives in Berlin with her Ironman husband and son, sitelink.
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