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- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People’s Police, is called to investigate. But her power will stretch only so far, when every move she makes...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2, 1940
Berlin. 1940. Hitler’s rule casts a menacing shadow over the city. As the distant war moves closer, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke fights to keep criminals off his patch. But he is walking a tightrope. If his secret relationship with...
- Location(s): Berlin, Denmark
- Genre(s): Noir, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Meet Gabriel Præst, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmark’s Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim present in a page-turning Nordic murder mystery with a cosmopolitan vibe Everyone in Denmark...
- Location(s): Berlin, Europe, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall. If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
‘A powerful, haunting debut’ Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network ‘Incredibly powerful, harrowing but ultimately uplifting. I couldn’t put this down.’ Katie Fforde, author of A Rose Petal Summer ‘A fascinating story which had...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alec Foster is no Jason Bourne. He is Head of Section in Berlin for M16. He is fifty-one, and a borderline alcoholic counting down the days to retirement. Alec is told of a plot to assassinate a British Minister...
- Location(s): Berlin, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
In 1998 the gilt is starting to come off a new era. Mark Lucas, the recently appointed foreign minister, is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Suspense
- Era(s): WW2
British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents in Germany. With diplomatic relations quickly unravelling, this pack of spies soon comes into their own: the horse-loving German at home in Berlin’s underground; the young American sports journalist;...
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1930s
Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment-a small band...
- Location(s): Berlin, Brazil, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Mundo is a rebel – the embittered offshoot of a rich family, whose artistic vocation clashes with his father’s dynastic plans. Ashes of the Amazon charts his determined flight from the fraught centre of his family’s wealth – the...
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