Much like her recreation of the forgotten heroines of WWI in "The Alice Network" Quinn's vivid and gripping novel of the terrible betrayals by and of the not so notorious but just as guilty perpetrators of the unimaginable horrors of Nazi Germany, told through the perspectives of her major characters as they grimly track down a seemingly ordinary but truly vicious killer of the Third Reich while the rest of world wants only to distance itself from "them' or believe that Nuremberg was the end of "all that" It wasn't and still isn't but this particular character seemingly so attractive, so ordinary, so likeable has left only one living witness to identify her and the hunt in Europe and Boston of 1947 is truly enthralling as are the very different characters who are linked together in the hunt for her before she escapes justice . The characters are finely drawn, believable and fascinating and the novel itself, while firmly based on real historical facts has woven them into a both a complex mystery and a fascinating exploration of the conflicted emotions of both love and hate even the most appalling person can engender in one person. The characters are memorable and believable and you wonder yet again at how true "the banality of evil" really is. How does someone supposedly give shelter and food to a person then cold bloodedly shoot them without any remorse whatsoever?