The Pale House by Luke McCallin

This is the second book in the Gregor Reinhardt series. It's even better than the first book, The Man From Berlin. The story has advanced from May 1943 to the spring of 1945, but it is still set in Yugoslavia. Reinhardt is now part of the feldjager korps, a kind of super unit of the German military police, created to help maintain discipline in the Wehrmact as the Third Reich crumbled.

McCallin has written that these two books are part of a trilogy, and I can't wait till the third installment.

The Man From Berlin by Luke McCallin

This is an excellent mystery story featuring a German Abwehr (military intelligence) officer in Yugoslavia in World War Two. Captain Gregor Reinhardt is a decorated First World War veteran, a former Berlin detective, and a man of conscience trying to hold on to his integrity in a world given over to the devil. He is called on to investigate the murders of another Abwehr officer and a female journalist which, naturally, are more than they seem. Reinhardt has to navigate the treacherous waters of Nazi and Wehrmacht bureaucracy, not to mention the local Yugoslav authorities and Communist partisans to boot. The book has a strong moral depth and profoundly investigates the questions of the end justifying the means, and what it means to maintain integrity in a world without true law.

I listened to this story as an audiobook while running.