Dave's Reviews > Goldstein

I found Goldstein to be a nice step forward in this series and enjoyed it more than the first two books. As described, it centers on Kommisar Gereon Rath's assignment to tail an American gangster and a simmering conflict in the Berlin underworld but Kutscher also does a fine job to weave in exploration of the growing economic despair and expanding Nazi influence of the period. He does a fine job to establish interesting threads and slowly bring them together in a way that kept my interest but was also more grounded than the second book.

Interestingly, in addition to still being pretty unlikable, Rath is also a pretty poor investigator in this book. Hercule Poirot he is not. It makes me feel that there could be a better series centered on Charly instead. However, I am still very interested to see where Kutscher takes the series as political events in Germany grow more desperate.