{"product_id":"9780060817275","title":"City of Shadows","description":"A cultured city scarred by war.   An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of   her own. A young woman who claims to   be a Russian grand duchess. A brazen killer,   as vicious as he is clever. A detective   driven by decency and the desire for justice.   A political movement growing in power. . . .     \u003cp\u003eDeeply atmospheric, peopled with rich, complex characters, City of Shadows is an enthralling novel of historical suspense set in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s -- a decadent, turbulent time in which a proud nation scarred by defeat, deprivation, and debauchery will become the fertile breeding ground for the rise of National Socialism.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin, 1922 -- one of this troubled city's growing number of refugees, Esther Solomonova survives by working as secretary to her fellow Russian émigré, \"Prince\"Nick, a scheming adventurer and cabaret owner. Always on the prowl for a deal, Nick smells money when he hears of a woman in an asylum claiming to be a grand duchess, daughter of the Czar of all the Russias, who escaped the assassination of the rest of her family by the Bolsheviks. Enlisting a highly suspicious Esther, Nick plans to prepare the woman -- known as Anna Anderson -- to claim the Romanov fortune.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Anna is being hunted. Or so she claims. At first Esther believes Anna's fear to be just in her imagination -- until innocent people around them begin to die. So in a Berlin stricken by hyperinflation, Esther enlists the help of a German police officer -- a dogged inspector named Schmidt -- to try and find out who wants Anna dead -- and why. Yet the deeper she and Schmidt dig, the more they realize that their own lives are at risk.    \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013696635120,"sku":"9780060817275","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060817275_p0.jpg?v=1763767384","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060817275","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}