When a penniless veteran is found dead, no one seems interested in helping Inspector Gereon Rath solve the murder. The new Germany is a frightening place, but policework must go on even through book-burning and marching, paranoia and fear.
‘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.’
‘If you like crime, historical or translated fiction, this gives you all three.’
‘Babylon Berlin is a gripping evocative thriller’
'Gritty and gripping; Kutscher is amaster of historical noir'.
'An evocative blend of history and fiction'.
Kutscher brings us another stunning, atmospheric story of Pre war Berlin... Another triumph!
I really enjoyed this book, chillingly set against he inexorable rise of the most evil regime in history.
A thoroughly entertaining book engaging from first to last page, atmospheric descriptive with a real sense of time and place
Kutscher captures the zeitgeist with chilling accuracy.
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.