The Evolution of Elsa Kreiss

What happens when Berlin's premiere dominatrix trades in her whip for a badge and gun? She discovers she cannot escape her past. With the help of the detective who saved her brother’s life, Elsa Kreiss enters the police academy, expecting her world to be far safer. Instead, it only becomes more dangerous!

An unsolved case of three missing girls from Charlottenburg pulls her mentor, Kommissar Joseph Heinz, back into the dark abyss of child abductions and murder just as he realizes he’s in love with his partner. While he searches for a killer, Elsa fights her attraction to a very sexy bad boy. Lukas Trommler is everything she likes in a man—cocky, confident, and hot. An art buyer at a local gallery, Lukas exudes culture with an edge of danger, yet there is more to the man than meets the eye. Trommler invites her into his world where she comes face to face with a familiar monster. Yuri Ivchencko is one of the most powerful and wealthiest men in the world with ties to the Russian mafia and human trafficking. His obsession with collecting art depicting the nightmares of sexual abuse survivors offends Elsa, who doesn’t hesitate to say so. Her outburst lands her squarely on his radar. When Elsa goes missing, Heinz abandons his current case to rescue his protégé. The operation brings him face to face with a man from his past, the one he believes responsible for the cold case that haunts him still. The more he digs for clues to Elsa’s whereabouts, the more evidence is revealed linking the missing girls from Charlottenburg to the cold case Heinz cannot let go.

The stakes are high as Heinz races to save the feisty young officer who has become a pseudo-daughter to the crusty old detective and to find the missing girls now at the mercy of a sadistic Russian billionaire—before it’s too late!

Welcome to The Checkpoint, Berlin Detective Series; your passport into a world of dark passions, international crime, and ever-present danger.