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Berlin, 1927. When a studio executive at Ufa, the home of German Cinema, is found dead in his office bathtub, Herr Kriminal-Oberkommissar Nikolai Hoffner is determined to uncover the truth behind what he firmly believes is murder. With the help of Fritz Lang and Alby Pimm, the leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin, Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts, and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles Germany. Jonathan Rabb's Shadow and Light is an electrifying thriller set in a darkly beautiful Berlin poised on the edge of destruction.
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"Set in 1927 Germany, Rabb's superb sequel to Rosa correlates the advent of talking movies with the rise of Nazism. When Kriminal-Oberkommisar Nikolai Hoffner investigates the apparent suicide of an Ufa film studio executive, the trail leads the Berlin policeman to the sex and drug trade as well as to the National Socialist German Workers Party's local leader, Joseph Goebbels. Working with Helen C
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Atmosphere is all in Jonathan Rabb's brooding new mystery . . . brilliantly plotted narrative . . . Rabb writes so well and the mood he creates is so haunting."
Wendy Smith, The Washington Post
"Weimar Berlin's legendary film industry provides the cinematically dissolute milieu for Jonathan Rabb's stylish noire Shadow and Light, in which Fritz Lang himself makes a cameo."
Vogue
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- SeriesBerlin Trilogy #2