Before DNA testing there was a woman who caught the attention of people all over the world with her claims that she was Anastasia the last surviving heir to the Russian throne, the daughter of the murdered Czar. In this fictional story is a young Jewess in 1922 Berlin, this is Germany before Hitler. Because of the scar on her face Esther survives by being a secretary to Prince Nick who owns several cabarets in the city. Esther takes pity on a young woman she finds in the asylum and thus blooms a scheme to pass her off as Anastasia. Though she says that there is someone after her, who wants her dead, they pass it off as ravings and delusions of a mental patient. That this until a trail of bodies leading to Anna Anderson (Anastasia) This is a really good book, of course, I have read her Mistress of the Dead series but I found this hard to put down. Would read a follow up with Esther and her cop Schmidt after they left Berlin The ending was a nice touch.
