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The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse
  • Author(s): Alison Moore
  • Location(s): Germany, The Rhine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel,...

The Murder Farm

The Murder Farm
  • Author(s): Andrea Maria Schenkel
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in rural 1950s Germany, the narrator of the book returns to an isolated rural community where a whole family and their maid have been murdered and the rest of the community has turned a blind eye.

The Scrapbook

The Scrapbook
  • Author(s): Heather Clark
  • Location(s): Cambridge (Massachusetts), Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she meets Christoph, a German student visiting campus. They only spend a week together – discussing art, ideas and history – but it is long enough for Anna to fall desperately...

You Would Have Missed Me

You Would Have Missed Me
  • Author(s): Birgit Vanderbeke
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1960s

A family is torn apart by their dream of a better future in the West. A true story narrated through the eyes of a child. West Germany, early 1960s: A little girl arrives with her parents from East Germany...

Half Blood Blues

Half Blood Blues
  • Author(s): Esi Edugyan
  • Location(s): Berlin, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and 1990s

Charles C. Jones – Chip – and Sidney Griffiths, have been friends since they were children the STates. They find themselves in Berlin at the start of WW2, jazz musicians in a band whic inludes Hieronymous Falk, who is...

Snow White Must Die

Snow White Must Die
  • Author(s): Nele Neuhaus
  • Location(s): Taunus
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On a wet November day, Detectives Pia Kirchoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to the scene of a mysterious accident. A woman has fallen from a bridge onto the motorway below. It seems that she may have been...

The Mistress

The Mistress
  • Author(s): E S Purnell
  • Location(s): Belgium, Birmingham, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Muriel’s life is changed unexpectedly and forever when she meets Franz: but after many years of happiness the dream is in danger of being shattered when she discovers Franz’s first wife is guarding a mysterious, dangerous secret.

Therapy

Therapy
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin, Germany, The North Sea
  • Era(s): Modern

No witnesses. Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness. She vanishes without a trace from her doctor’s office during treatment. Four years later, Josy’s father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to...

Absolute Friends

Absolute Friends
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Bavaria, Berlin, England, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s, 2000s

In previous novels, le Carré has delighted in taking us on a mystery tour. This time, the mystery is located in character more than plot. The absolute friends of the title are Ted Mundy and his East German friend,...

Half Swimmer

Half Swimmer
  • Author(s): Jo Heinrich (Translator), Katja Oskamp
  • Location(s): Berlin, Germany
  • Genre(s): Novella, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Half Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn’t yet mastered the technique. Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set...

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