The Fatherland Files

Have you read the rest of the Gereon Rath series?

1929: There is seething unrest in Berlin. When a car is hauled out of the Landwehr Canal with a mutilated corpse inside Detective Inspector Gereon Rath claims the case. Soon his inquiries drag him ever deeper into the morass of Weimar Berlin’s ‘Roaring Twenties’ underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning and shady politics.

1930: Silent movie actress Betty Winter is killed on set after a lighting system falls on her. Inspector Gereon Rath suspects sabotage, possibly worse. Meanwhile, the murder of a Nazi named Horst Wessel leads to street riots and Rath’s relationship with Charlotte Ritter is on the rocks. Then another actress is found dead, this time with her vocal cords removed…

1931. Abraham Goldstein, a professional hit man, arrives in Berlin. Inspector Gereon Rath is assigned to keep him out of action – a boring job when the city’s department stores are being robbed, an underworld power struggle is playing out, and Nazi brownshirts are patrolling the streets.