Description: Set against the shattered landscape of post-war Berlin, Death in the Rubble follows a nurse battling addiction who murders her victims to buy gifts for her lover - a married police detective.
Brief description: Richard Bodek is a professor of history at the College of Charleston.
Review Quotes: "In 1949, a nurse named Elisabeth Kusian murdered two people in Berlin she barely knew on no pretext at all, each killing as cold-blooded as it was banal. Kusian's misdeeds, undertaken so lightly, remind the reader of the easy brutality into which German society slipped in the era of the world wars - and how long it lingered into the tense, twilit years of the post-war."