Babylon Berlin - "Transatlantic" : the 9th volume of the successful series by Volker Kutscher
Created: 12/29/2022, 6:00 p.m
By: Jessica Bradley
Finally it goes on, the exciting story about Gereon Rath.
Volker Kutscher manages to keep the suspense up in the 9th volume as well.
My book tip.
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Even if some passages are written in English and there are no translations for non-speakers, I was also fascinated by the 9th volume.
I hope a solution will be found in the meantime to give all readers this pleasure.
Anyone looking for similar stories would be in the right place with Ralf Langroth's novel "A President Disappears".
Volker Kutscher "Transatlantic": About the book
Cover "Transatlantic" Volker Kutscher © Piper Verlag
Volker Kutscher's novels form the basis for the cult series "Babylon Berlin".
The Sky and ARD series is considered one of the most successful German television productions and has won the Grimme Prize and the German Television Prize, among others.
(publisher info)
The Rath family is scattered.
Charlotte Rath, née Ritter, had actually wanted to be abroad for a long time, but circumstances kept her in Berlin.
Her former foster son Fritze has been put in the closed ward of the mental hospital in Wittenau, her best friend Greta has disappeared without a trace and is suspected of murder.
Meanwhile, Gereon Rath, who was in hiding and believed to be dead by the authorities, is getting too dangerous in Germany. He boards the zeppelin to escape to the USA.
While Charly is trying to get Fritze out of the clinic, to clarify Greta's disappearance and to solve the murder case, things happen on the other side of the Atlantic that she never thought possible.
blurb
Gereon Rath, who was born in Cologne and worked there for several years on the homicide squad, had to leave the city in a hurry after a scandal and ended up in 1929 as a detective inspector at Berliner Sitte.
In the police headquarters on the Alex, just called
the castle
, he soon made the jump to inspection A, the legendary murder inspection under detective Ernst Gennat.
Murder cases are pursued here with almost scientific meticulousness and the latest investigative methods.
The Babylon Berlin series continues: my conclusion
Both the series and the books are fascinating and exciting for me.
I would recommend it to any historical crime thriller fan.
Volker Kutscher "Transatlantic"
9th volume of the Gereon Rath novels
2022, Piper Verlag, ISBN 13-978-3-492-07177-2
Price: hardback €26, e-book €19.99, number of pages: 592 (deviating from the format)
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Volker Kutscher, the author of the bestseller
Volker Kutscher was born on December 26, 1962 in Lindlar in the Bergisches Land and grew up in Wipperfürth.
After studying unprofitable arts (German, philosophy and history), he first worked as a newspaper editor before turning to writing novels.
Kutscher lives in Cologne and Berlin.
He wrote his first crime novel
Bullenmord
in 1996 together with Christian Schnalke.
After other regional crime novels set in the Bergisches Land (Our Father, 1998; The Black Jacobin, 2001), Kutscher began
his series about the detective inspector Gereon Rath in Berlin in the late 20s and early 30s in 2007 with the novel
The wet fish .
The second volume ,
The Silent Death
, followed in 2009, and the third Rath thriller in 2010
Goldstein
, 2012
Die Akte Vaterland
, 2014
Märzfallen
, 2016
Lunapark
, 2018
Marlow
and 2020 finally the eighth Rath novel
Olympia
.
The series is to lead the investigator Gereon Rath until 1938.
In 2017, the collection of short stories Moabit
was published in the illustrated series by the Berlin artist Kat Menschik. It
describes an event from the youth of Gereon Rath's great love, Charlotte Ritter.
In 2021 Kutscher and Menschik will continue their collaboration with the volume
Mitte
, a story in letters illustrated by Menschik, which accompanies Friedrich Thormann, the Raths’ former foster son, in autumn 1936.
In recent years, Kutscher has also published a few short stories in magazines and anthologies that are part of the Gereon Rath cosmos:
Alex
(in Jan Seghers' crime anthology Der Tod hat 24 Türchen, 2008),
Christmas presents
(in Gisa Klönne's Fear not , 2009),
good relationships
(StadtViewen #38, October 2010),
the fairy tale with matches
(SZ-Magazine #51 2010, December 23, 2010, republished in Jan Costin Wagner's anthology Totenstille Nacht, 2012),
Plan B
(Welt am Sonntag , October 14, 2012 and in the anthology Mord am Sonntag, 2012) as well as
Dortmund Easter Fire, Gelsenkirchen Romance
and
White Meadow
(in the 2012, 2014 and 2021 Mord-am-Hellweg anthologies).
(Info publisher's page)
