MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN

'Kutscher captures the zeitgeist with chilling accuracy.' -The Guardian

Longlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2021

Berlin, 1933: A homeless former solider is found stabbed under the railway arches.

Gereon Rath is on the case, but struggles to find clues. No one seems interested in solving the murder of a penniless veteran.

Meanwhile, Rath's fiancee Charly has been assigned the case of fifteen-year-old Hannah Singer. Hannah killed her father and six others by starting a house fire but has now been declared mentally unfit to stand trial.

When a connection is discovered between Hannah and the dead ex-soldier, the two cases overlap.

It's up to Rath and Charlotte to find justice for the dead man, and for Hannah even as the Nazis continue their rise to power and the Reichstag burns.

The new Germany is a frightening place, but policework must go on even through book-burning and marching, paranoia and fear.

About the Gereon Rath Mysteries

1930s Berlin is a hotbed of vice and organised crime. When Inspector Gereon Rath leaves Cologne to join Berlin's murder squad, he cannot begin to imagine the brutality and complexity of the world he is stepping into as communists and Nazis struggle for power.

Full UK marketing campaign by the Sandstone Press in-house team. LONGLISTED for CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2021.

About the Author

Volker Kutscher studied German, Philosophy and History, and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel. Babylon Berlin was the start of an award-winning series of novels to feature Gereon Rath and his exploits in late Weimar Republic Berlin, was an instant hit in Germany. The series has sold over one million copies worldwide, and is now a critically acclaimed TV show. Kutscher works as a full-time author and lives in Cologne.

Reviews

'Kutscher successfully conjures up the dangerous decadence of the Weimar years, with blood on the Berlin streets and the Nazis lurking menacingly in the wings.'

* Sunday Times *

'If you like crime, historical or translated fiction, this gives you all three.'

'Babylon Berlin is a gripping evocative thriller'

* Mail on Sunday *

'Gritty and gripping; Kutscher is amaster of historical noir'.

'An evocative blend of history and fiction'.

* CrimeTime *

Kutscher brings us another stunning, atmospheric story of Pre war Berlin... Another triumph!

* The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland *

I really enjoyed this book, chillingly set against he inexorable rise of the most evil regime in history.

* NetGalley review *

A thoroughly entertaining book engaging from first to last page, atmospheric descriptive with a real sense of time and place

* NetGalley review *

Kutscher captures the zeitgeist with chilling accuracy.

* The Guardian *


Awards
Long-listed for CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2021.



Book Information
ISBN 9781913207045
Author Volker Kutscher
Format Paperback
Page Count 525
Imprint Sandstone Press Ltd
Publisher Sandstone Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 370g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 32mm