The Markus Steiner novels
BOOK THREE — AVAILABLE FROM 29 SEPTEMBER 2026
Redemption Alley
Switzerland 1934. Women are found strangled and posed in the alleys of Bern’s old city. Every clue points to a cultured, charming man the law is required to protect— and Steiner, six weeks after the execution that broke him, has to decide what he is willing to become to stop the killings.
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THE STEINER FILES
Once a month I write about the things that don’t fit in the novels: the real Bern of the 1930s, the police work I had to get right, and the odd detail I got wrong and only found out later. Book news reaches you here before anywhere else.
The Markus Steiner novels begin with a body in Bern in 1932, in a country that sees itself as an island of neutrality in the centre of a continent that is recovering from one world war and is moving inexorably towards the next. Each novel stands alone as a crime story. Together they trace the beginning of one man’s passage through the shadow decades of twentieth-century Europe and reveal what that journey will inevitably cost him. Start with Fall from Grace, and plunge into the world of Markus Steiner.
Book 1 – Fall from Grace
A rich man’s suicide. A dead suspect. A young detective who won’t let it go.
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Book 2 – Echoes of Betrayal
A politician murdered at home — and a rot spreading through Switzerland’s capital city.
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“If you like the Bernie Gunther novels by the late Philip Kerr you will love this. The writing and characterisation are very, very similar… The author also captures the time period brilliantly, with some great details about life in Switzerland and the police force.” — Broomster, United Kingdom
“Dark, moody, atmospheric settings that evoked a feeling of Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and with a classic double act of detectives I was invested immediately. Hard to believe this was a debut.” — Steven Moore, author, United Kingdom