It begins with a murder and diligent police detective investigating and eventually solving it. The novel subverts some of the conventions of the detective novel. A plot is thus discovered to eliminate all of those who attended the conference to help improve German relations with the United States. Set in a universe in which Nazi Germany won World War II, the story's protagonist is an officer of the Kripo, the criminal police, who is investigating the murder of a Nazi government official who participated at the Wannsee Conference. Fatherland is a 1992 alternative history detective novel by English writer and journalist Robert Harris.
