Hidden among the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons left homeless, nationless, by the war is a killer. Calculating. Determined. Munich, the epicenter of the rise of Hitler’s Nazi Party, still in recovery, is the perfect place to hide. The black market flourishes. Crime is rampant. Former SS officers, remnants of the Gestapo, criminal doctors keep to the shadows hoping to avoid capture and the gallows.

Freda Zimmer was never the member of the Nazi Party. She was never enlisted in the SS, nor the Gestapo nor the military. She is a famed violinist on the verge of mental collapse. Why then is she, of all people, victim number one?

In this fourth installment of the Munich mystery series, Avi Kreisler, the Jewish homicide detective, immediately surmises that suicide was not the cause of Freda’s death. Ever the cynic and blessed with a new partner, he begins the hunt for a serial killer who could be, in this war-ravaged city, almost anyone.

Hana Ziegler, herself almost a victim of a Nazi euthanasia program, is scouring the DP camps looking for those children with disabilities who are the most unwanted for emigration to America, to Palestine, wherever. Her relationship/partnership with Kreisler is growing. She has taken in a disabled child with no identity. Does this child know who the killer is?

In THE DISPLACED everyone is suspect. Musicians, doctors, fellow cops, even among Kreisler’s own people, displaced Jews who are caught in the middle of a political war facing a world that doesn’t want them. In the chaotic world of post-war Germany, killing has become second nature. And it will continue unless Avi and Hana can take a dangerous dive into the past and come out alive.