On May 7, 1945, when the German army surrendered to the Allies, World War II in Europe ended. Or did it?

In the closing stages of the madness and in its aftermath, two million German women were raped by the vengeful Russian army. Daughters and granddaughters, mothers and grandmothers. Two hundred thousand were violated by American troops. Four hundred thousand children were born out of sexual assault. Three hundred thousand were left orphans by the general carnage. There were seven thousand suicides alone in Berlin.

Cities were leveled. Millions were homeless. No lights. No running water. Vagrants and thieves roamed the highways, some heading east, others west. While Goering, Himmler and other Nazi scoundrels were arrested, hundreds more, some of the worst of the SS killers, remained in hiding trying to find an escape route to freedom. The Cold War was brewing. The black market was thriving. Hell had found a home.

Twenty-two-year-old Hana Ziegler and Detective Avi Kreisler have managed to survive the worst of the insanity only to find themselves thrust into the murder investigation of a former SS commandant. Hana is under suspicion by the American military for the killing of her uncle. Kreisler has just rejoined the Munich police department after serving time in Dachau.

Josef Sklar by all accounts was a monster. But who killed him and why? Father Anton Maier, the member of a church helping war criminals allude justice? Lev Aronoffsky or Nastasia Bereslavka, children of the Holocaust who have turned feral to survive? Matthias Fuchs, Kreisler’s own partner in the force? The Church? The Police? Or something, someone, even more sinister?

The surrender of the German Wehrmacht has only ended the shooting. In THE UNFOUND the darkness, treachery and murder haven’t gone anywhere.