Murder in Berlin

Christina Koning

Having read it

★★★★☆

A good book that steadily revealed its story around real locations in historical times – that of a burgeoning, autocratic, Germany and its capital city in the 1930s – that allowed context, characters and motives to paint an intriguing mystery.

A good passage

[...] Alone in the middle of a strange city, with a fair, but sadly rusty knowledge of the language, and none of the familiar clues of smell, sound and visual memory to assist him, he was more at sea than he’d been in fifteen years. Because it had been a little over fifteen years ago that a burst of shrapnel had taken away all but a fraction of his sight. Since that day in 1917, he’d had to make his way through the world relying on his wits and his other senses. It wasn’t true that blind men had better hearing – they made better use of it, that’s all.