Shadow and Light: A Novel (Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner)

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 Berlins sex and drug trade the rise of Hitlers Brownshirts and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles Germany. Jonathan Rabbs Shadow and Light is an electrifying thriller set in a darkly beautiful Berlin poised on the edge of destruction.