The Sleepwalkers: A Mystery: 1 (Willi Kraus Series 1)

In the final weeks of the Weimar Republic as Hitler and his National Socialist party angle to assume control of Germany beautiful girls are seen sleepwalking through the streets. Then a young woman of mysterious origin with her legs bizarrely deformed is pulled dead from the Havel River. Willi Kraus a high ranking detective in Berlins police force begins a murder investigation. A decorated World War I hero and the nations most famous detective Willi also is a Jew. Despite his elite status in the criminal police he is disturbed by the direction Germany is taking. Working urgently to solve the murder Willi finds his superiors diverting him at every turn. As he moves through darkness closer to the truth Willi begins to understand that much more than the solution to a murder is at stake. What he discovers will mean that his life the lives of his friends and family and Germany itself will never be the same