Review of "Babylon Berlin" by Voler Kutscher

Weimar-set police procedural/detective thriller...well, the central character is a detective in the Berlin police but he's a lone wolf a lot of the time, and the procedures are mainly there to be subverted. 

Nicely written/translated, and atomspheric, with some decent characters and setting descriptions. I must admit I got a bit confused about exactly who some of the characters were, especially the cops. Is that the German names, or the fact that the non-stereotype ones are not actually that differentiated?

Better than the TV series - no deliberate anachronism or lazy history inaccuracy. I could imagine reading more from what the cover establishes as a series.