Discover the first in a BRAND-NEW series of post-WW1 mysteries, from Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Ridpath. An absolute must-read for fans of Robert Harris, Alan Furst and Robert Goddard. 🔍👀🩸In a city rebuilding from war, truth can be the most dangerous weapon of all.
Berlin, 1930.
Historian Archie Laverick, scarred mentally and physically by the Great War, travels to Berlin to research a famed Prussian general. His quiet study is shattered when he crosses paths with Esme Carmichael, a spirited young American intent on making her name as a foreign correspondent. When a shooting at a Saxon castle leaves a young Jewish woman accused of murder, Archie and Esme are drawn into a perilous hunt for the truth.
Their investigation cuts through the glittering façades and lingering scars of a nation still reeling from war – where resentment simmers, political alliances shift, and the first shadows of a new conflict fall across Europe. Amid whispers of blackmail and betrayal, the pair must navigate intrigue and danger to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight.
A tense, atmospheric mystery set in a world between wars – perfect for fans of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Trilogy, Robert Harris’s Fatherland, and Alan Furst's spy novels.
Praise for Michael Ridpath:
'Ridpath has that read-on factor that sets bestsellers apart” The Guardian
'It is the author's insight that gives his novel so much life. And he can write... Yes, he has a winner here' The New York Times
'For sheer entertainment, there's nothing in the mystery genre to beat a well-constructed thriller… …the new book of Michael Ridpath provides a master-class in how it's done{::}. I read it in one gulp' The Observer
'As slick and compulsive a piece of storytelling as can be found in the best of blockbuster fiction' Sunday Express
About the Author :
Michael Ridpath is the bestselling author of over 20 crime novels and thrillers.
His first novel, after a career in finance, was Free to Trade, a No 2 bestseller
about the murky world of bond trading which was translated into over thirty
languages. The success of that book enabled him to become a full-time writer.
He published seven more thrillers with a financial background before starting a
crime series set in Iceland featuring the Icelandic-American detective Magnus
Jonson. He has also written five stand-alone thrillers. He is currently writing
the Foreign Correspondent series of murder mysteries set in the capitals of
Europe in the 1930s. He splits his time between London and Massachusetts.
