CI Schenke · Book 1

Blackout

by Simon Scarrow

Published
18 March 2021
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781496739735
Type
novel

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Cover of Blackout

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.

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…

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