The City in Year Zero

Germany 1945. The War''s end. Year Zero. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie is there to see his country''s ambassador to the Third Reich leave by the back door. For the Allies there are no rewards for neutrality. But Stefan''s work isn''t over. There are Irishmen in Germany that Ireland doesn''t want back. If the Allies have them, they can expect no help. Still, the Irish government needs to know enough about them to deny knowing anything about them. And British Intelligence will cooperate if there''s some quid pro quo . It''s the usual, dirty business. Unexpectedly, Stefan finds himself in a town he knew as a child when visiting his German cousins. And his family is still there - the ones who survived the War. Maybe it''s just a fond memory of the first girl he loved that makes him help Else Friesack search for her missing daughter. Maybe he just wants to do something that''s clean. But the past is a dangerous place to return to. Darkness still hangs over Germany. And Stefan Gillespie is walking right into it.>

Auteur

After a successful career as a television writer and producer, working on such series as A Touch of Frost, Midsomer Murders and Between the Lines, Michael Russell decided to write what he had always wanted to: books.

The City in Darkness is the third of his Stefan Gillespie stories of historical crime fiction, taking a sideways look at the Second World War through Irish eyes, and exploring some unexpected corners of the conflict, such as Danzig, New York and, in The City in Darkness, the cities of Franco's Spain. The first two Stefan Gillespie novels, The City of Shadows and The City of Strangers were both shortlisted for Crime Writers' Association awards.

Michael lives with his family in West Wicklow, in Ireland, not a million miles from Stefan Gillespie's home.

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Germany 1945. The War's end. Year Zero. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie is there to see his country's ambassador to the Third Reich leave by the back door. For the Allies there are no rewards for neutrality. But Stefan's work isn't over. There are Irishmen in Germany that Ireland doesn't want back. If the Allies have them, they can expect no help. Still, the Irish government needs to know enough about them to deny knowing anything about them. And British Intelligence will cooperate if there's some quid pro quo. It's the usual, dirty business. Unexpectedly, Stefan finds himself in a town he knew as a child when visiting his German cousins. And his family is still there - the ones who survived the War. Maybe it's just a fond memory of the first girl he loved that makes him help Else Friesack search for her missing daughter. Maybe he just wants to do something that's clean. But the past is a dangerous place to return to. Darkness still hangs over Germany. And Stefan Gillespie is walking right into it.