Blackout
- Published
- 18 March 2021
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781496739735
- Type
- novel
About this book
Blackout opened the CI Schenke series on March 18, 2021, at 384 pages, sending Kripo Inspector Horst Schenke to hunt a serial killer targeting women under Berlin's mandatory wartime blackout in December 1939.
Key facts about Blackout
Simon Scarrow wrote Blackout, a novel on our list. It has been out since 18 March 2021. The book has 384 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781496739735 to find the main one.
Blackout is book 1 of 3 in the CI Schenke series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. A Death in Berlin is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 13 March 2025.
Additionally, Simon Scarrow writes Eagles of the Empire, The Wellington and Napoleon Quartet and Gladiator as separate series. Those series sit on our historical fiction, young adult historical fiction and historical thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Warlord of Britannia is the latest published Simon Scarrow book on file, from 21 May 2026.
About Simon Scarrow
Simon Scarrow is a British author of historical military fiction, best known for the Eagle series (also published as the Eagles of the Empire), which follows two Roman soldiers, the freeborn officer Macro and the well-born but initially inexperienced Cato, through campaigns across the early Roman Empire, beginning with the invasion of Britain in Under the Eagle. See every Simon Scarrow book in order.
Its place in CI Schenke
Blackout is book 1 in the CI Schenke series. It is followed by 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781496739735