A trace of smoke
(Book)

It's 1931. Crime reporter Hannah Vogel walks through Berlins' Hall of the Unnamed Dead searching for stories in photos of unidentified murder victims. When she sees her brother's picture among the corpses, she must hide her shock and grief. She's loaned his identity to Jewish friends fleeing the country, and the authorities can't discover that he's dead. She must investigate the murder herself. Diving into the glitzy cabaret where her brother sang leads her from Berlin's seedy underbelly to the top ranks of the storm troopers. After an orphan is dumped on her doorstep claiming her brother was his father, Hannah faces the most difficult decision imaginable: can she trade the life of this innocent child for a chance to bring down the rising Nazi party?