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Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. When an unexpected house call leads Doctor Beer to Speckstein's apartment, he finds himself in the bedroom of Zuzka, the professor's niece. Wide-eyed, flirtatious, and not detectably ill, Zuzka leads the young doctor to her window and opens up a view of their apartment block that Beer has never known. Does one of these enigmatic neighbours have blood on their hands?

Berlin ligger i ruiner. Året er 1946. Det er endnu en af historiens koldeste vintre. Den amerikanske soldat Pavel Richter er af uvisse årsager blevet i den ugudelige by efter krigen. Anders er en tysk gadedreng. Da deres veje krydses, tager Pavel Anders under sine vinger, og sammen forsøger de at overleve i kulden og krigens efterdønninger.

German-Canadian writer Dan Vyleta, famous for his debut novel Pavel & I which gained international acclaim discusses his latest novel Smoke, which tells an alternate-history of 19th century Britain.