I have decided to write book reviews, when time allows, for the audiobooks to which I listen, because I pick up new friend requests on goodreads. Short synopsis: “Lustmord — the joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the brutal slaying of a beautiful society wife dumped in the vast English Garden. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified of the crime, and disturbed by the artful arrangment of the victim’s clothes and hair — a madman’s portrait of death.” This story is authored by Faye Kellerman, who is both a cultural and religious jew, which must be remembered as the story has antisemetic comments by Germans in Munich in the year before the rise of Hitler. The listener needs to understand those comments as describing the actual mood in Munich and how “no one will mind if a jew blamed for murder is killed by a mob.” The story follows a Danish detective who relocated to Munich when offered a job to head the police’s homicide detective unit. His residential apartment building is vandalized on occasion by Nazi youth. There are mysterious murders of well-dressed, wealthy women in Munich. The Danish lead detective wants to find the truth. His superiors want arrests made so the public does not panic. Normally, I can’t tolerate movies of the Nazi era showing cruelty and torture, primarily because I lost every relative on my father’s side to the Holocaust. This book, Straight into Darkness, does not describe cruelty. Instead, bodies are discovered by the Danish detective, and he knows his superiors committed murders or otherwise solved problems without lengthy investigations. I like Faye Kellerman and rate almost all of her books as 5 stars. She did not disappoint here either, although to my knowledge, this is the only book she wrote that is set in 1932 Germany, or not set in recent times for that matter.