Death in Focus

Its place in Elena Standish

Death in Focus is book 1 in the Elena Standish series. It is followed by A Question of Betrayal. See the full Elena Standish reading order.

Anne Perry's last completed series follows Elena Standish, a photographer working in 1930s Europe and the granddaughter of a former British intelligence officer, as she's drawn out of her professional life and into espionage work while fascism rises across the continent. Beginning in Venice in 1933 in Death in Focus, the series moves through the decade's escalating political tensions -- Nazi Germany's growing reach, the machinery of European intelligence services, and the personal cost of operating inside both -…