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Blackout: A World War II Thriller by Simon Scarrow is a great historical police procedural that takes place in Berlin and kept me entertained from beginning to end.

I love myself a great historical novel, and this is a WWII murder/mystery that is part police procedural, part thriller, part historical fiction. It is set in Berlin, Germany 1939. There is plentu of unease and instability cooking as part of the backdrop and threaded within the plot itself to lend intrigue, suspense, and to heighten the stakes.

Here we have CI Horst Schenke who is a complicated and conflicted character. An excellent detective who is an asset to The Third Reich, yet is a black sheep in that he is morally and ideal logically against the new Nazi regime.

The twists and turns within this dark, gritty plot, and the fact that Schenke is diving deeper and deeper into dark corners and layers within important government figures and situations at odds with what he believes, takes this double homicide to a whole new level.

With the Investigator be able to solve the murders, find the culprit, yet keep the heat off of himself, and escape this sticky situation unscathed?

I enjoyed finding out.

4/5 stars

Thank you NG and Kensington for this wonderful arc and in return I am submitting my unbiased and voluntary review and opinion.

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