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
zlib_text: 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. Since then, a further four titles have appeared, most recently
  Märzgefallene in 2014. 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. Alongside his translation work, he currently
  teaches Modern Foreign Languages in Harrow. He lives in London.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Other titles in the Gereon Rath series
  
  Der stumme Tod (The Silent Death)
  
  Goldstein (Goldstein)
  
  Die Akt