We have read all the novels. This is a terrible hash of all things readers hold dear about Liebermann and Reinhardt. Compressing a 450 page crime thriller into 2 episodes just fails. They changed everything except the names of the characters. The casting choices are a travesty of the novels star personalities. It's been hacked to look like a Holmes, but it fails again and again. If you are looking to watch the series as an intro prior to reading, forget it, this will poison your mind.