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Stones from the River

Stones from the River
  • Author(s): Ursula Hegi
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1951-1950

That Summer in Berlin

That Summer in Berlin
  • Author(s): Lecia Cornwall
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

Nazi power is rising again, threatening a war that will be even worse than the last one. The English aristocracy turns to an age-old institution to stave off war and strengthen political bonds – marriage. Debutantes flock to Germany,...

The Acapulco

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

A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The Acapulco, a club in the city’s red-light district, taking their scalps as gruesome trophies and replacing them with plastic wigs. Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible...

The Accomplice

The Accomplice
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Germany
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH  Max Weill has never forgotten the face of Otto Schramm, a doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. A NAZI...

The Anna Puzzle

The Anna Puzzle
  • Author(s): Justine Gilbert
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1991 and 2022

When a Ukrainian man rescues Anna from a mugging, it is the start of a passionate affair. Thirty years earlier, her mother had an affair with a KGB agent, but unaware, Anna knows only that her parents died in...

The Arms Maker of Berlin

The Arms Maker of Berlin
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A ruthless arms billionaire and a disgraced history professor share a terrible secret. Nat Turnbull is dragged abruptly from his quiet academic life when his former mentor Professor Gordon Wolfe is arrested for stealing top secret archive documents dating...

The Atlas of Forgotten Places

The Atlas of Forgotten Places
  • Author(s): Jenny D Williams
  • Location(s): Germany, Uganda
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

With the empathy of Little Bee and the political intrigue of Blood Diamond, a gripping story of two women from different worlds who become inextricably bound in a quest to save their loved ones. The Atlas of Forgotten Places...

The Banned Books of Berlin

The Banned Books of Berlin
  • Author(s): Daisy Wood
  • Location(s): Berlin, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1933 / contemporary

Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya. She can only watch on, horrified, as...

The Bastard Factory

The Bastard Factory
  • Author(s): Chris Kraus, Ruth Martin (translator)
  • Location(s): Germany, Moscow, Riga, Tel Aviv
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1905-1975

Chris Kraus’ The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv....

The Berlin Exchange

The Berlin Exchange
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s (Cold War)

Berlin, 1963. The height of the Cold War and an early morning spy swap. On one side of the trade: Martin Keller, an American physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared into the English prison system. Keller’s...

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