>SADLY THE HONEYTONES DID NOT WIN

>But they won’t give up playing and perhaps there is someone out there who will provide a mini-bus and storage facilities for these inspirational guys.

Very many thanks to all those people who voted for them. 

>A DIFFERENT APPROACH

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These are the covers of  English and Polish editions of Death in Breslau. The cover of the English version of the next book in the series End of the World in Breslau is even more risque see here. 

Why the different  covers?

>CRIME FICTION SET IN WEIMAR GERMANY

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Crime fiction set in Weimar Germany is in vogue at the moment with two more books coming out this year. It must be the looming economic problems?

The encyclopedic Karen of Euro Crime drew my attention to the next book in the series to Marek Krajewski’s intriguing  Death in Breslau titled End of the World in Breslau here.

I enjoy reading about quirky detectives, such as Adamsberg and Harry Hole, and Marek’s Eberhard Mock is certainly a bit offbeat although well suited to his time and place.

You can read my interview with the Polish crime writer here and here. 

End of the World in Breslau will be published in March 2009.

And Rebecca Cantrell, a resident of Hawaii, has A Trace of Smoke, which is set in Berlin 1931 out in May 2009. Watch the excellent trailer here.

These two books both look to me like contenders for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award.