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- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
September 1960. In the Spandauer forest Detectives Max Becker and Bastian Döhl, from the Berlin Kriminalpolizei, find a naked, tortured man tied to a tree. A cryptic message hangs from his neck. When another body appears, Max is sure...
- Location(s): Kreuzberg, Neukölln
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she’d need to do the...
- Location(s): Paris, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
Michael Dolan is a stoic perfectionist and former special operations pilot working a staff job at the Pentagon. After accepting an improbable CIA request to help prevent impending terrorist attacks in Europe, Dolan finds that of the demons he...
- Location(s): Marzahn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A woman approaching the ‘invisible years’ of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR’s largest prefabricated housing estate, on the outskirts of Berlin. From her intimate...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s
A counter-factual spy thriller set in East Berlin in the early-1990s. The GDR still exists, but is on the edge of economic breakdown, partly due to a coal producing region is in the process of seceding from the GDR....
- Location(s): Camden Town, Berlin, Ireland, Scotland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1960s
A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she’s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta. Two sisters torn apart....
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1948/1949
‘Smile, nod, and don’t breathe a word of what happens here. Or I’ll put you on the next train to Auschwitz myself.’ Four years later. Hanni Winter shivers in her thin coat as she hurries through the empty Berlin...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage,...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by...
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