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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...

Sharks

Sharks
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg’s so-called ‘problem area’, an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict villa. Prosecutor Chastity Riley is assigned the case, and quickly finds herself waist-deep in a murky tangle of city planners, shady investors and...

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...

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Author(s): Kurt Vonnegut
  • Location(s): Dresden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller – these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centring...

Smoke in Berlin

Smoke in Berlin
  • Author(s): Oriana Ramunno
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): WW2

Book 2 Hugo Fischer A DETECTIVE WITH A SECRET Berlin, June 1944. Hugo Fischer is forced to work for the Nazi secret service, but he carries dangerous secrets he must conceal. Gioele is not his son, but a Jewish...

Snow Light

Snow Light
  • Author(s): Danielle Zinn
  • Location(s): Saxony, Czech Republic
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Detective Inspector Nathaniel Thomas encounters a man attacking a young woman in a local park, the DI is unable to save her. Out of guilt, Thomas quits his job at Homicide Headquarters and relocates to the tiny village...

Sojourn

Sojourn
  • Author(s): Amit Chaudhuri
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines. He moves along its streets and pavements; through its department stores, museums and restaurants. He befriends Faqrul,...

Solar Flare (Dr. Dan Trix Mystery Series 7)

Solar Flare (Dr. Dan Trix Mystery Series 7)
  • Author(s): Rodney Romig
  • Location(s): Germany, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current

Dr. Dan Trix is considered for the presidency of a prestigious university in Berlin− until he is charged with sexual abuse of a board member. Elaine Newman’s foundation sponsors a seminar to recognize the philanthropy of a local company....

Sorry

Sorry
  • Author(s): Zoran Drvenkar
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Sorry follows four friends in present day Berlin – brothers Kris and Wolf, and best friends Tamara and Frauke. Kris is the most decisive and nominally the group’s leader. He’s the one the others usually defer to. Younger brother...

Stasi Wolf

Stasi Wolf
  • Author(s): David Young
  • Location(s): Berlin, Halle-neustadt, Oberhof
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s

East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed...

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