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Katalin Street

Katalin Street
  • Author(s): Magda Szabó
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1934-1968

In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Bálint, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Irén Elekes, the...

Death on the Danube

Death on the Danube
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Budapest, Hungary
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mystery Series Book 1 Recent divorcee Lana Hansen needs a break. Her luck has run sour for going on a decade, ever since she got fired from her favorite job as an investigative reporter....

District VIII (Danube Blues)

District VIII (Danube Blues)
  • Author(s): Adam LeBor
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2015

Life’s tough for a Gypsy cop in Budapest. The cops don’t trust you because you’re a Gypsy. Your fellow Gypsies, even your own family, shun you because you’re a cop. The dead, however, don’t care. So when Balthazar Kovacs,...

The Invisible Bridge

The Invisible Bridge
  • Author(s): Julie Orringer
  • Location(s): Budapest, Hungary, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young...

Budapest Noir

Budapest Noir
  • Author(s): Vilmos Kondor
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s

Set in Budapest 1936. The author brings Budapest to life, in similar vein to Philip Kerr’s Berlin based Bernie Gunther novels. Zsigmond Gordon is a crime journalist with a local newspaper who follows up the murder of a young woman....

Budapest Romance

Budapest Romance
  • Author(s): Rozsa Gaston
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Kati Dunai travels to Budapest to settle her father’s estate, the last thing on her mind is the pursuit of pleasure. She’s a busy international conference planner, her life rooted in Manhattan. But from the moment she sets...

Mrs Tuesday’s Departure

Mrs Tuesday’s Departure
  • Author(s): Suzanne Anderson
  • Location(s): Budapest, Hungary
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When Natalie and Anna, sisters and life-long rivals, hide an abandoned child from the Nazis, their deception resurrects the scars of a star-crossed love triangle that threats their safety and tests the bonds of their loyalty. Hungary’s fragile alliance...

Prague

Prague
  • Author(s): Arthur Phillips
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A group of American expats en route to adventure, inspiration, or perhaps even history-in-the-making in Prague, somehow get sidetracked and settle instead for the enigmatic city of Budapest. Arriving in Hungary’s capital to pursue his elusive brother, journalist John...

The Painting

The Painting
  • Author(s): Alison Booth
  • Location(s): Sydney, Budapest
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1989 /1990

A young Hungarian woman confronts her family’s past in an engrossing quest for a stolen painting. When Anika Molnar flees her home country of Hungary not long before the break-up of the Soviet Union, she carries only a small...

Café Europa

Café Europa
  • Author(s): Ed Ifkovic
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

In 1914, as rumors of war float across Europe, Edna Ferber travels to Budapest with Winifred Moss, a famous London suffragette, to visit the homeland of her dead father and to see the sights. Author Edna is fascinated by...

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