I love The Last Policeman series so far; I’m looking forward to seeing what you have to say about it.

I enjoyed them when I read them eight years ago. My tastes have changed some since then, but not a lot. My notes describe them as the grittiest books I’d read that year, and I’d read quite a few gritty books that year. I liked the third book of the trilogy the best – I summed it up in my Livejournal (ha ha) with this: “German Requiem finds PI Bernie Gunther doggedly pursuing a convoluted mystery in post-war Berlin and Vienna, a mystery that involves the
most wanted information of the time – who did what during the war? There are double-crosses, shady spies, gruesome
deaths, and a sense that nothing is going to go well in the end.” The author eventually went on to write more books featuring this PI, so now the trilogy is folded into a longer series named after the protagonist.

She was! Definitely. It just wasn’t the most interesting part of the show.

Oo, that sounds interesting! Were they good books?

Your reviewed book for this week sounds reminiscent to me of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir trilogy, with the whole noir aspect and police trying to do their jobs under the Nazi regime. Kerr’s first of the trilogy, March Violets, was published in 1989, just a few years before Mirage/Mayhem’s publication. Maybe it was a thing in the late 1980’s / early 1990’s to set mysteries with Nazis.