Simon Scarrow Bath - Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath, Edinburgh, Ely, and St Andrews

Join us for a special evening with bestselling novelist Simon Scarrow, where he will be sharing his ideas and thoughts on searching and writing crime and historical fiction, and launching his brand new crime series with Blackout. Set in Berlin, at the start of the Second World War, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke is under immense pressure to solve the brutal murder of a young woman. Treated with suspicion by his superiors for his failure to join the Nazi Party, Schenke walks a perilous line. The discovery of a second victim confirms hsis worst fears, he must uncover the truth before evil strikes again. In the tradition of writers like Robert Harris, Len Deighton and Philip Kerr, Simon Scarrow vividly brings a bygone era to life in Blackout.  

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