Evil in High Places by Rory ClementsSynopsis”The gripping and atmospheric new thriller from the award-winning, million-copy-bestselling author.

THE CLOSER YOU GET, THE FURTHER YOU HAVE TO FALL . . .

Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective Sebastian Wolff faces a battle of his own.

A famous actress has disappeared and Wolff has been ordered to find her, fast. But Elena Lang is no ordinary film-star: she is the mistress of Joseph Goebbels – Hitler’s right-hand-man in the party that Wolff despises.

But this is a country on the brink of war, and corruption runs deep. In a search that will take him from high society to the city’s darkest corners, Wolff will soon learn just how fine the line is between justice and jeopardy…”

My Review

I enjoyed this audiobook, that I listened to via the BorrowBox app. This is the second book in the Detective Sebastian Wolff series set in Nazi Germany 

This book is set in Bavaria in 1936 during the time of the Winter Olympics. I knew that the Summer Olympics had been held in Berlin in 1936, but I didn’t have a clue that Germany also hosted the Winter Olympics! This was a real eye-opener and the  perfect setting for this thriller.

Just like in the first book, the claustrophobia of the Nazi regime made the investigation of the disappearance of Elena Lang almost impossible for Wolff to complete, especially with the rumours that she was Goebbels mistress!

This was a good thriller with some unexpected twists and plot developments that kept me listening, wanting to know what had happened to Elena Lang.

I can’t decide whether I enjoyed the narration by Adam Sim or not. I was glad I listened to it, because I definitely wouldn’t have got the pronunciation right for all the German words, but I didn’t enjoy the way he portrayed some of the characters.