A Death in Berlin

Its place in CI Schenke

A Death in Berlin is book 3 in the CI Schenke series. It follows Dead of Night. See the full CI Schenke reading order.

Simon Scarrow's CI Schenke novels move his historical fiction into 20th-century Berlin, following Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke of the Kripo (Berlin's criminal police) as he investigates murders under the Nazi regime, where solving a case honestly can be as dangerous as the crime itself. Blackout opens in the blacked-out Berlin of December 1939, months into the war, as Schenke hunts a serial killer targeting women under cover of the capital's mandatory nighttime blackout, all while trying not to draw the wrong…