title: Babylon Berlin (Gereon Rath Mystery)
author:  Volker Kutscher 
description: -The first in a series that's been wildly popular in Germany is an excellent police procedural that cleverly captures the dark and dangerous period of the Weimer Republic before it slides into the ultimate evil of Nazism.- --Kirkus Reviews -Kirkus Reviews-<br /><br />Riveting and atmospheric.--Library Journal<br /><br />Kutscher keeps the surprises coming and doesn't flinch at making his lead morally compromised. ----Publishers Weekly
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  Volker Kutscher was born in 1962. He studied German, Philosophy and History,
  and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel.
  Babylon Berlin, 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. A lavish television production aired on Sky Atlantic in
  November 2017. There are now six titles in the series, most recently Lunapark
  in 2016. The series was awarded the Berlin Krimi-Fuchs Crime Writers Prize in
  2011 and has sold over one million copies worldwide. Volker Kutscher works as
  a full-time author and lives in Cologne.
  
  Niall Sellar was born in Edinburgh in 1984. He studied German and Translation
  Studies in Dublin, Konstanz and Edinburgh, and has worked variously as a
  translator, teacher and reader. He lives in Glasgow.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also available from Sandstone Press
  
  Babylon Berlin (Der nasse Fisch)
  
  The Silent Death (Der stumme Tod)
  
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