I'm trying to ease my way back into this series because of how the last full novel I read (no. 7) ended. This wasn't a bad point of re-entry, I think. The many German words in an English text were a bit of a weird experience, especially when you add on how they'd sound in the ascribed regional dialects. The most disappointing thing was that, if somebody had erased the biographical information from the text and handed it to me, I wouldn't have noticed this wasn't Peter Grant but Tobias Winter investigating.