The March Fallen (Gereon Rath 5)

#5 “DIE ZEIT”-List of Best Crime Novels (January 2015)
Spiegel Bestseller

English translation nominated for Dagger Award 21 of the Crime Writer's Association

February 1933: The political situation in Germany is getting more and more tense; the Reichstag is set on fire shortly before the general elections, playing into the hands of the Nazi party who uses it as an excuse to push an emergency decree through Parliament which suspends basic rights guaranteed in the constitution – a first step towards the elimination of all political opponents.

Meanwhile Gereon Rath grapples with a case that he inherited from his superior who has fallen from grace with the new Nazi police chief. The case leads him deep into the legacy of the First World War, back to March 1917, when German soldiers left behind scorched earth in Northern France during “Operation Alberich”. Unpunished murders, misappropriated gold bars from a French bank and a captain who falls into a treacherous booby trap result in a series of murders 16 years later. The key to it all seems to be the soon to be published war novel of retired Lieutenant Achim Graf von Roddeck.

“Volker Kutscher knows how to combine contemporary history with drama – his books have the seductive power of a drug.” FAZ

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  • Publisher: KiWi-Taschenbuch
  • Release: 10.03.2016
  • 608 pages
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-04903-9
Monika Sandel

Volker Kutscher

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 The Wet Fish is currently being adapted as a TV series under the title Babylon Berlin by Tom Tykwer (director of “Cloud Atlas” and “The International”) for ARD and Sky.

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