Thus begins a story of four intertwining lives, stretching from the cold shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia, through the Russian front of WWII, to post-war Austria that tries to come to terms with the devastation, and all the way to Boston where an antiques dealer marries a mysterious German war widow who is camera-shy and won’t speak about her past. If she can only find a way to get out of Europe. But she will not let herself by captured and brought to justice for deeds she still deems legal and justified. In fact, her reputation for cruelty and superb marksmanship was so strong, she had come to be known as Die Jägerin, the huntress.īut the Nazis lost the war, and now the huntress is on the run, a prey for once. As a member of the “master race,” she had the power of life and death over the subjugated people, which she had taken advantage of by killing six Jewish children and a British POW in cold blood.
Just a few months earlier she was the mistress of a high SS official, living in an opulent mansion in Poznan, in occupied Poland. The novel opens with a scene at the lakeside in the town of Altausee, Austria in 1945, where a frantic woman ponders her new circumstances. So I will limit myself to saying that it is among the best historical fiction I have read in a long, long time.
Given the subject matter of Kate Quinn’s latest novel The Huntress, it is difficult to use terms like “enjoyment” and “fun” to describe the reading experience.
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