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- 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,...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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 Four years later, Josy’s father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to...
- 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,...
- 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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