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March Violets

March Violets
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Midnight in Berlin

Midnight in Berlin
  • Author(s): James MacManus
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Berlin, 1938. Newly-appointed military attache Noel Macrae and his extrovert wife Primrose arrive at the British Embassy. Prime Minister Chamberlain is intent on placating Nazi Germany, but Macrae is less so. Convinced that Hitler can be stopped by other...

Murder in Berlin

Murder in Berlin
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1933

(Blind Detective 4) First published as Out of Shot under A. C. Koning. Berlin, 1933. The Nazi regime is gaining devastating power as Hitler is appointed Chancellor and stark oppression begins to unfold in Germany, blind war veteran Frederick...

Nightfall Berlin

Nightfall Berlin
  • Author(s): Jack Grimwood
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

In 1986, news that East-West nuclear-arms negotiations are taking place lead many to believe the Cold War may finally be thawing. For British intelligence officer Major Tom Fox, however, it is business as usual. Ordered to arrange the smooth...

Prague Fatale

Prague Fatale
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Prague
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Part of the epic series featuring Bernie Gunther. Summer of 194a in Berlin, Gunther is in persuit of killer. He meets a girl, who needs rescuing from a seeming rape-attack and they subsequently begin a relationship. He is relocated...

Red Pill

Red Pill
  • Author(s): Hari Kunzru
  • Location(s): Paris, Berlin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of “Red Pill” arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he...

RESISTANCE WOMEN

RESISTANCE WOMEN
  • Author(s): Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life...

Safe Houses

Safe Houses
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s and present

In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA’s operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life;...

Seat 7a

Seat 7a
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Psychiatrist Mats Krüger knows that his irrational fear of flying is just that – irrational. He knows that flying is nineteen times safer than driving. He also knows that if something does happen on a plane, the worst place...

Siblings

Siblings
  • Author(s): Brigitte Reimann, Lucy Jones (Translator)
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960

1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth – a young painter – the GDR is her generation’s chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of...

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