BERLIN, 1946.
The war is over. The killing isn't.
Berlin lies in ruins, divided between the victorious powers and struggling to rebuild. But beneath the rubble, old loyalties, new rivalries and dangerous secrets are beginning to surface.
When a young girl is found dead among the ruins, nothing about the scene makes sense. There are no obvious wounds. No signs of decay. No explanation for why she appears perfectly preserved and deliberately placed.
DCI Saunders and Detective Jenny Walsh are assigned to investigate.
What first appears to be an inexplicable murder soon becomes something far more disturbing. Files disappear. Witnesses are silenced. A second girl appears. And the deeper Saunders and Walsh dig, the clearer it becomes that someone is determined to control what they discover.
Their investigation takes them into the shadowy world of post war intelligence, where MI5, Soviet operatives, former Nazi networks and competing powers are playing a dangerous game of deception and control.
As the pieces begin to connect, Saunders and Walsh uncover a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a single murder and deep into the secrets left behind by the war.
Because in post war Berlin, nothing is quite what it seems.
And some secrets were never meant to be uncovered.
The Girl in the Pink Dress is a gripping historical thriller of murder, espionage, deception and survival, set against the ruins of Berlin at the dawn of the Cold War.