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Burying Leo

Burying Leo
  • Author(s): Helga Gruendler-Schierloh
  • Location(s): Detroit, Augsburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Twentieth Century

After having been sexually assaulted during an audition, Ingrid, an aspiring young German singer and songwriter, wants to report the crime. However, her mother is vehemently opposed to getting the police involved. Instead, she talks her daughter into spending...

Changer

Changer
  • Author(s): Matt Gemmell
  • Location(s): Munich, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Techno-thriller: DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. Jutland, Denmark: a billionaire industrialist seizes control of a top-secret project that the European Defence Agency calls Destiny, manipulating it for his own ends. Edinburgh, Scotland: physicist Neil Aldridge’s life is saved by an...

Chimney Fire

Chimney Fire
  • Author(s): Suellen Ocean
  • Location(s): Germany, Israel, Munich
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): 1930's, 1940's, 1980's

American Rudy Steinberg is visited by a banker from Munich and told he has received an inheritance from his German father, Lothur Von Heinden. Problem is, Rudy was raised to believe that his father was Moses Steinberg, a Jew....

Crooked Cross

Crooked Cross
  • Author(s): Sally Carson
  • Location(s): Bavaria
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Crooked Cross describes, through the eyes of one ordinary family, the Nazis’ growth in power between December 1932 and August 1933. It is extraordinarily prescient, anticipating all the horrors they were about to inflict on the world, and in...

Evil in High Places

Evil in High Places
  • Author(s): Rory Clements
  • Location(s): Bavaria, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

THE CLOSER YOU GET, THE FURTHER YOU HAVE TO FALL . . . Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective...

In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story

In Mozart’s Shadow:  His Sister’s Story
  • Author(s): Carolyn Meyer
  • Location(s): Munich, Paris, Salzburg, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

Nannerl Mozart was a musical prodigy who seemed to have a brilliant future. But once her younger brother, Wolfgang, began composing symphonies at the age of five, her career and talents were utterly eclipsed. Here, at last, is Nannerl’s...

In the Blood

In the Blood
  • Author(s): Anna Fodorova
  • Location(s): Prague, London, Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

London 1988: Agata grew up in post-war Prague and believes that her mother was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Then she discovers that not everyone died. Set against the background of the collapse of...

Magnus

Magnus
  • Author(s): George Mackay Brown
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands, Flossenburg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 12th century and mid-twentieth century

Linking the martyrdom of the Earl of Orkney in the 12th century to the death of philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a Nazi concentration camp, Brown explores the questions of guilt, goodness, and sacrifice.

Munich

Munich
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1938

September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain’s...

Munich Wolf

Munich Wolf
  • Author(s): Rory Clements
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Munich in the 1930s is a magnet for young, rich, aristocratic Brits. They come to learn German, but also to go wild, free at last from the suffocating constraints of strait-laced England. They ski in the Alps, swim in...

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