Volker Kutscher

The Silent Death (eBook, ePUB)

A Gereon Rath Mystery
Übersetzer: Sellar, Niall

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Silent Death: A Gripping Historical Mystery Set in the Shadows of 1930s Berlin

"[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction."-The New York Times

Volker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with The Silent Death as a police inspector investigates crime and corruption in a decadent 1930s Berlin, overshadowed by the growing Nazi movement.

March 1930: The film business is in flux as talking films take over the silver screen, leaving many a producer, cinema owner, and silent movie star falling by the wayside. When celebrated actress Betty Winter is hit by a spotlight while filming a talkie, it initially appears to be an accident. However, Superintendent Gereon Rath discovers clues pointing to murder.

As Rath's colleagues suspect the absconded lighting technician, his investigations lead him in a completely different direction, soon leaving him to pursue the case on his own. Tensions mount as Rath's superior pressures him to drop the investigation, his father seeks his help with a blackmail case involving Cologne mayor Konrad Adenauer, and ex-girlfriend Charly attempts to rekindle their relationship-all against the backdrop of escalating violence between Nazis and Communists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250187024
• Artikelnr.: 50522514

Autorenporträt

VOLKER KUTSCHER was born in 1962. Before writing his first crime novel, he worked as the editor of a daily newspaper. Today he works as a writer in Cologne. Kutscher's novels have been published in many countries and Babylon Berlin was adapted as a 12-part TV miniseries by Tom Tykwer (director of Cloud Atlas and The International).

© Monika Sandel

Rezensionen

"Kutscher schafft es, dem alten Berlin ein Gesicht zu geben." NDR Info