MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN-[Kutscher''s] trick is ingenious...He''s created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction.- -The New York Times Following international bestseller Babylon Berlin, Volker Kutscher takes us back to Berlin in the second Gereon Rath Mystery. In The Silent Death, Inspector Rath investigates crime and corruption in the shadow of the growing Nazi movement. March 1930. The film industry is changing rapidly, with talking films taking over the silver screen.Celebrated actress Betty Winter is killed when a spotlight falls on her during the filming of a new talkie.It looks like an unfortunate accident at first, but Gereon Rath finds clues that other detectives miss, all suggesting it was murder.The prime suspect is a runaway lighting technician, but the Rath-s investigation points to a different explanation. Soon he is out on his own as tensions rise between rival film studios, and violence breaks
