Jonathan Rabb
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
405 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
November 1918. A socialist revolution is sweeping across Germany, wreaking havoc on war-torn Berlin. Amid the ruin of the city's slums, four women are found dead-all with identical scars on their backs. Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his assistant, Hans Fichte, are baffled by the killings, and when another body is discovered, the case takes an ominous and unexpected turn. The fifth victim is none other than Rosa Luxemburg-a leader of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the Eve of Hitler's Olympics, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner is forced out of the Kriminalpolizei because he is a half Jew. Hoffner is not surprised given the rise of Nazism, and anyway his focus is elsewhere. His son Georg is missing in Spain, swept up in the sudden outbreak of the civil war. He has already lost Sascha, his elder son, to the Nazi regime. But Georg is not what he appears to be, and when Hoffner discovers this, he is determined...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the founding of the colony. There, Yitzhak discovers a fractured world, where Reform and Conservative Jews live separate lives--distinctions, to him, that are meaningless given what...
5) The overseer
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 358 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
