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Finished A Dark Song of Blood by Ben Pastor, 3rd in her Martin Bora series which is chronologically the latest available in English (from Italian Wikipedia, there are at least two more after) for the increasingly beleaguered Wehrmacht officer with a conscience, solving crime cases in occupied WWII countries in between his regular German Army duties doing said occupying and trying to work around the more unconscionable parts of that.
This one went back to historical novel with occasional murder-solving in it mode, as a good deal of the story was devoted to how everyone in Rome as of mid-1944—military, civilian, or otherwise—was dealing with the fallout of the last months of German occupation just as the Americans are arriving, plus some more distressing developments in Bora's personal life. That said, there was a decent murder investigation, performed in tandem with the Italian police investigator from #2, who has moved to Rome for reasons that didn't seem very clear and probably just boiled down to the author wanting to reuse a favourite character, who was apparently named after her father.
Overall I liked it, and will be going to the library tomorrow to pick up my hold on the next available English installment, which probably fills in the story of exactly what happened to Bora on the Eastern front in 1941, which will be interesting to see, given how the past two books have referenced his trauma from that heavily (but were written about a decade prior, from the looks of it).
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