Friday Book Snippets combining Book Beginnings on Friday and the Friday 56, is co-hosted by Anne@HeadFullofBooks and Olivia at Bemused and Bookish.
Directions: Share two snippets (a sentence or short paragraph) from a) the book’s opening and b) page 56 (or another page) from the book you are currently reading. No spoilers, please.
Today I’ve just started to read Evil in High Places by Rory Clements, the second book in his Detective Sebastian Wolff series. This is historical fiction, a murder mystery set in 1936 as Germany is hosting the Olympic Games.
First snippet: Chapter One:
When Elena Lang went missing, Sebastian Wolff couldn’t work out what all the fuss was about.
‘She’s a film star,’ he told his boss, ‘She’s probably overslept – in someone else’s hotel room, That’s how this business works.
Second snippet: Page 103
It suddenly occurred to Seb that he had his police pistol in a shoulder holster under his jacket. He was not more than thirty metres away from Hitler. With one well-aimed shot he could change the course of history.
The moment passed and the Walther remained unfired.
Description from Amazon UK:
HOW DO YOU CATCH A KILLER WHO BELIEVES THEY’RE ABOVE JUSITCE?
Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective Sebastian Wolff faces a battle of his own.
A famous actress has disappeared and Wolff has been ordered to find her, fast. But Elena Lang is no ordinary film-star: she is the mistress of Joseph Goebbels – Hitler’s right-hand-man in the party that Wolff despises.
But this is a country on the brink of war, and corruption runs deep. In a search that will take him from high society to the city’s darkest corners, Wolff will soon learn just how fine the line is between justice and jeopardy…
I enjoyed the first book in this series, Munich Wolff, set in 1935 and so I’m keen to read what happens next as Hitler moves Germany towards the Second World War.
What do you think? Would you read on?
