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The City of Shadows by Michael Russell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The City of Shadows about?
Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award 2013 and shortlisted for CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award 2014 'She looked up at the terraced house, with the closed shutters and the big room at the end of the long unlit corridor where the man who smiled too much did his work. She climbed the steps and knocked on the door...' Dublin 1934: Detective Stefan Gillespie arrests a German doctor and encounters Hannah Rosen desperate to find her friend Susan, a Jewish woman who had become involved with a priest, and has now disappeared. When the bodies of a man and woman are found buried in the Dublin mountains, it becomes clear that this case is about more than a missing person. Stefan and Hannah trace the evidence all the way across Europe to Danzig. In a strange city where the Nazi Party are gaining power, Stefan and Hannah are inching closer to the truth and soon find themselves in grave danger...
Who reads The City of Shadows?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Michael Russell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;Avon
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780007460083
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Thriller, History
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (969 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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